Services for Rosie B. Blackmore will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at New Mount Elem M.B. Church with the Rev. Leonard Walker officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 12:30 p.m. until the service.

Mrs. Blackmore died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at her home. She was 78.

She retired from food services at Halls Ferry Elementary, Grove Street and Cooper High schools. She was a member of New Mount Elem M.B. Church for more than 60 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leon Blackmore.

Survivors include three daughters, Shirley Purvis of St. Louis and Mary Bowman and Linda Blackmore, both of Vicksburg; a sister, Annie Lee Chiles of Vicksburg; five grandchildren; and a number of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.