Tupelo - Ryland K'Mauri Sykes, four week old infant son of Dionte Sykes and Dakota Kimble, died Monday, April 23, 2012 at the North Mississippi Medical Center Womens Center.

Graveside services will be 2 PM Friday, May 4, 2012 at Lee Memorial Park's Garden of Innocence with Pastor Georgia Cruise officiating. Lee Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include his parents, Dionte Sykes and Dakota Kimble of Tupelo; two grandmothers, Virgaree Hunt and Sherelle Richardson (Rafael) all of Tupelo; two grandfathers, Larry Kimble (Amy) of Belden and Kim Steven Morris of Tupelo; two great-grandfathers, Curtis Brand of Tupelo and Grady Brown of Detroit, Michigan; his great-great-grandmother, Bernice Sykes of Belden; four aunts, Meisha Sykes, Whitney Hunt, Brittny Hunt and Dynastee Burnett; three uncles, Justin Miller, Jayland Kimble and Jordon Kimble; thirteen great-aunts; eleven great-uncles and a host of cousins.

He was preceded in death by four great-grandmothers, Frances Hunt, Betty Morris, Christean Kimble and Ethel L. Sykes; three great-grandfathers, Jerry Kimble, Joe Lee Sykes and John Early Montgomery; his cousins, De'Andre Crayton and Terry Sykes.