GLEN ALLAN — Donnie Thomas Uzzle Sr. died Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at Select Specialty Hospital in Jackson. He was 68.

Born in Glen Allan, Mr. Uzzle graduated from Rolling Fork High School, attended Mississippi College in Clinton and was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.

In 1964, he enlisted in the Army and served two tours in Vietnam where he received a Bronze Star and a Silver Star before retiring in 1984 as a helicopter pilot. He later was an agricultural pilot.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Rolling Fork.

Survivors include a son, Donnie Thomas Uzzle Jr. of Clinton; a daughter, Patricia Stokes of Grenada; his mother, Lucille Uzzle of Conway, Ark.; a brother, Bobo Uzzle of Traverse, Mich.; a sister, Susie Dunaway of Morrilton, Ark.; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Rolling Fork with the Rev. Millard Caulder officiating. Burial with military honors will follow at Mound Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork.

Pallbearers will be Thomas Uzzle, Bobo Uzzle, Michael Dunaway, Mike Dunaway, Todd Stokes and Shannon Tillman.