Services for James “Mr. Luxie” Walton Sr. will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mercy Seat M.B. Church with the Rev. Ruby Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Friday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 10 a.m. until the service.

Mr. Walton died Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, at Shady Lawn Nursing Home. He was 94.

He was retired from Waterways Experiment Station. He was a deacon at Mercy Seat M.B. and a former member of St. Peter’s Lodge AF&M.