Della Rose Lee Staton, 79, of the Battleboro community, died on Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 at Tarboro Nursing Center in Tarboro.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Tarboro with the Elder Robert Williams officiating. Burial will follow in Eastlawn Memorial Gardens.

A viewing will be from 2-8 p.m. today at Hemby-Willoughby Mortuary in Tarboro.

Survivors include one son, Phillip Staton Jr. of Rocky Mount; five daughters, Mary Herring of the home, Iris Weeks and Linda White, both of Raleigh, Sylvia Dudley and Hope Phillips, both of Rocky Mount; a sister Lillie Redmonds of Waldorf, Md.; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements by Hemby-Willoughby Mortuary, Tarboro.