Services for Katie Mae Cooksey will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bright Morning Star M.B. Church with the Rev. Reginald Harris officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Friday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 1 p.m. until the service. Mrs. Cooksey died Friday, April 15, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. She was 83.

She was a retired cook, having worked for Presley’s Truck Stop. She was a member of Bright Morning Star M.B. Church, where she was in the choir.