RAYMOND — Lester Ray Flowers died Monday, May 3, 2010, at the G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was 57.

Mr. Flowers was a longtime employee of the Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg.

Survivors include his wife, Wanda Flowers of Utica; two sons, Kevin Ukele of Madison and Daniel Flowers of Brandon; and a daughter, Leslie Wasson of Gulfport.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bethesda Presbyterian Church. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home in Raymond.