NATCHEZ — Sarah L. Pickens died Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was 61.

A native of Santa Ana, Calif., she had made her home in Natchez since 1998. She was a member of the Washington Baptist Church in Natchez.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Kristen Musa; her father, A. Harlan Ashby; and her mother, Naomi Geary Ashby.

Survivors include her husband, Curtis Pickens Jr. of Natchez; two stepdaughters, Stephanie Madsen of Vicksburg and Amanda Callender of Brandon; two sons, Ross Perry of Washington, D.C., and Anthony Michael Perry of Nashville, Tenn.; a sister, Mary Ashby Dobson of Waipawa, New Zealand; three brothers, A. Harlan Ashby of Dayton, Nev., Geary Ashby of Houston, Texas, and Dr. Johnathan Ashby of Los Angeles; and eight grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Port Gibson with the Rev. Carl Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Cain Ridge Cemetery in Lorman. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home in Port Gibson.

Pallbearers will be Charles Segrest, Everett Greer, Woodie Cain, Chad Callender, Brandon Barnett and Lonnie Ashley.

Honorary pallbearer will be Nathan Madsen.