PHILADELPHIA — Services for Margaret “Tootsie” Rickles will be Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at 2 p.m. from McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel in Philadelphia with the Rev. Ben Laird officiating. Burial will follow at Cedarlawn Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Visitation will be Thursday from noon until the service at McClain-Hays Funeral Home.  McClain-Hays Funeral Home in Philadelphia is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Rickles, 87, of Philadelphia, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, at J. G. Alexander Nursing Home in Union.

She was a native and lifelong resident of Neshoba County, and retired from Neshoba Central school cafeteria.

Her hobbies were crocheting, gardening, reading and sewing. Mrs. Rickles was a member of Trinity Baptist Church and the Order Of The Eastern Star.

Survivors include daughter, Kathy Rickles of Philadelphia; and sons, Larry (Kayron) Rickles of Philadelphia, Lynn (Brenda) Rickles of Vicksburg, Gary (Darlene) Rickles of Vicksburg and Richard Rickles of Philadelphia.