Services for Mary Jean Peets will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, at Glenwood Funeral Home with Dr. Matt Buckles officiating. Burial will follow at Green Lawn Gardens Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 until 5 this afternoon at Glenwood Funeral Home.

Mrs. Peets died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. She was 80.

She was a well-respected educator and retired from the Vicksburg Warren County School System after 40 years of teaching.

Born and raised in Duck Hill, Miss., Mary Jean Abel Peets attended Delta State University, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and completed her collegiate studies at Mississippi State University, where she obtained a master’s degree in education.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John Henry Abel and Mary Earl Abel; and two brothers, Cecil Ward Abel and Henry Travis Abel.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Peets; a daughter, Tracey Dellacona (Sal) of Macon, Ga.; a son, Brad Peets (Stephanie) of Madison, Miss.; six grandchildren, Leah, Lindsey, Ashley, Brett, Khaki and Katelyn; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Buddy Strickland, Calvin Pugh, Dave Madsen, Danny Hester, O.W. Mendrop, Durwood Tadlock, Joe Loviza and Arthur Lagg.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Strange and Pat Tompkins.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at P.O. Box 96011, Washington, D.C. 20090-6001 or www.alz.org.