LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Mary Bell Wilkins, 86, who died Thursday, March 17, 2011, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, at Nelson Chapel Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Surviving: sons, Billy Wilkins of Silver Spring, Md., and Thurman R. Wilkins of Louisburg; sisters, Mable Ricks of Roanoke Rapids, Dorothy Dean and Annie Ricks of Carteret, N.J., and Margaret Mighty of New York; brother, Woody Junior Foster of Paterson, N.J.; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.

Open visitation will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 21, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg.