A ceremony Saturday will dedicate the  Brandon Presley Memorial Highway, a section of Highway 51 South at Pope which honors the fallen Marine. The ceremony will be held at the intersection of Highway 51 and Pope-Water Valley Road Saturday at 10 a.m.

Marine Corp. Presley, a Panola native, died in December, 2005, of injuries sustained from an explosion while he was serving in Iraq.

The Mississippi Legislature passed a measure in March to designate a portion of Highway 51 in Panola County as  the “Corporal Michael Brandon Presley Memorial Highway.”