Services for Mack Author Jenkins will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Vicksburg City Auditorium with the Rev. Edmond Gibbs officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 7 p.m. Friday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home with the family hour from 6 until 7 and Saturday at the auditorium from noon until the service.

Mr. Jenkins died Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, at his home. He was 65.

He retired from Bunge Corporation after 35 years of service and became a self-employed carpenter.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Ollie and Dorothy Jenkins; a son, Michael Simpson; two sisters, Rose Jenkins and Dorothy Jenkins; and a brother, Lee Jenkins.

Survivors include his wife of 32 years, Dyanna Jenkins of Vicksburg; five daughters, Pastor Delphine Jenkins Taylor, Montie Washington, Belinda Simpson and Maxine Simpson, all of Vicksburg, and Dorothy Jenkins of Dallas, Ga.; two sons, Clarence Lovett and Mack Simpson, both of Vicksburg; sisters, Viola Dixon, Linda Smith, Eliza McRunnels, Indiana Jenkins, Josephine Robinson, Manerva Allen, all of Vicksburg, Cora Thirsten of Chicago, Betty Burks of Las Vegas; brothers, James Jenkins and L.C. Jenkins, both of Vicksburg; 18 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and family friends.