ALSATIA — Elmer V. Schepers Sr. died Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at Madison Parish Hospital. He was 86.

Mr. Schepers was born in Shinnston, W.Va., and had lived in the Alsatia area for more than 45 years. He was a retired farm manager and a member of Melbourne Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Flora Schepers of Alsatia; one daughter, Eva Holmes of Tallulah; one son, Chris Schepers of Tallulah; two sisters, Jeanette Tisdale of Kingston and Gertrude Winans of Pine Plains, N.Y.; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Melbourne Baptist Church in Transylvania with the Rev. Butch Goodman officiating. Burial, directed by Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home of Tallulah, will follow at 2 p.m. at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Natchez.

Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 8 at the church.