THE TIMES shreveporttimes.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 3B PAID ANNOUNCEMENTS View week of obituaries online at Shreveporttimes.com hv wet mm ra wimt wmaaaiNr srQ-iiPI- 1 JT i Iff -r Mr. Roy Walter Simmons Sister Virginia Baylock SHREVEPORT, LA Funeral services for Sister Virginia Baylock will be Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 1 1 :00 a.m. at Winnfield Chapel. Interment will be at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Family hour will be Friday, February 25, 2005 at Winnfield Funeral Home.
Sister Baylock went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 20. 2005 at 1 1 :00 a.m. She was born to the union of the Late Mr. Louis Houston and Francis Bass Houston and was a life long resident of Shreveport, LA and accepted Christ at a very young age. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie M.
Baylock, one son, Willie M. Baylock two brothers, Louis Houston Jr. J.D. Houston: and one sister, (delta Houston. She leaves to cherish her memory 3 daughters, Virginia Snow (Marshall).
Idella Baylock and Ella D. Hardy; 3 sons, Edward Baylock, Louis Baylock (Doris) Cecil Baylock (Charmaine); 1 7 grandchildren and 42 great grandchildren; one brother, Albert Houston; one sister, Frances Houston Wells (Edward) and a host of nieces, nephews, friends and relatives. Claris Friday Wren BOSSIER CITY, LA Graveside services for Claris Friday Wren, age 84 will be 2 p.m. Friday, February 25, 2005 at the Mausoleum in Hill Crest Memorial Cemetery in Haughton, LA. Officiating will be Bro.
Billy Pierce. Funeral home visitation will be Thursday. February 24, 2005 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Bossier City.
Mrs. Wren was born in Natchitoches Parish, LA. and was a resident of Bossier City, LA. She passed away Tuesday, February 22, 2005 after a lengthy illness at Christus Schumpert Hospital in Shreveport, LA. She was a homemaker.
Mrs. Wren was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by: husband, Edward "Bud" Wren and sons, David and Donald Wren. She is survived by her children, Jimmy Wren of Dallas, TX, Oleta "Leta" Wren Case and husband, Dick of Apollo Beach, FL; sisters. Faye Sell of Haughton, LA, Lynn Barrett and husband, Harley of Hurst, TX and numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
The family would like to thank Joyce McElwee and James Edwards for their kind and loving care of Mrs. Wren. Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Inc. Bossier Chapel 318-746-2543 Mr. George W.
Boyett SHREVEPORT. LA Funeral services for Mr. George W. Boyett, 78, will be held at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel, Friday, February 25, 2005 at 2:30 p.m. Reverend Tommy Allen will preside.
Interment will follow in Centuries Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home, Thursday. February 24, 2005 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Mr.
Boyett was born January 26, 1927 in Hornbeck, LA to the late John Wesley and Eugenia Boyett. He entered into rest Wednesday, February 23, 2005 in Shreveport, LA at his home surrounded by his family. Mr. Boyett was a member of Lighthouse Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; beloved wife, Wilma Bryant Boyett; brothers, Herman Boyett, J.W.
Boyett, Garvis Boyett and sisters, Johnnie Champion and Gloria Sibley. Mr. Boyett is survived by his daughters, Carol Gray and husband, Chuck, Gina Offutt and husband, Mark; sisters, Bobbie Harmon, Mary Ann Crum and husband, Buddy, Virginia Collins and husband. Johnny, Jerry Walker and husband, Howard, and Irene Cranford; sister-in-law, Jeannie Boyett; brother-in-law, Frank Sibley; grandson, Brian Gray and wife, Lea; granddaughter, Emily Offutt and great-grandchildren, Timothy Gray Miller, Patrick Caudill, Alicia Caudill, Jeremy Caudill and Kara Caudill. Pallbearers will be Michael Allgood, Lewis Allgood, Vance Walker, Bobby Brawley, Chris Jones and Daymen Cude.
The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Willis-Knighton South Hospital, 3rd floor, East staff and the Willis-Knighton Hospice staff. A special thanks is extended to Tonwayna Murray, Mr. Boyett's special caregiver in the last weeks of his life. The family suggests memorial donations be made to Willis-Knighton Hospice or to St. Jude's Children Hospital.
Rose-Neath Funeral Home Southside Chapel 687-1256 Frank Chesley Kyle SHREVEPORT, LA Frank Chesley Kyle, a resident of Shreveport, LA, died at the age of 59, on Feb 21, 2005, after a courageous battle following heart surgery at St. Luke's Episcopaf Hospital Texas Heart Institute in. Houston, TX. Services will be held on Friday at St. Mary of the Pines Catholic Church at 10:00 a.m.
Visitation will be at Rose Neath South on Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. Graveside services will be in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Saturday at 4 p.m. Frank was born on December 13, 1945, in Columbia County, AR and grew up in Plain Dealing, LA. He was employed by the Louisiana Department of Correction.
Division of Probation and Parole, from 1971 until his retirement in 1999. During his tenure with Probation and Parole, he was a Probation and Parole Officer, a supervisor, the District Administrator of the Shreveport office, and the Regional Director for Northwest Louisiana. He was known statewide within the Department as a man who did his job well, and he was often the person that was called upon when there was a problem to be solved. After leaving the Department of Corrections. Frank became a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA where he shared his experience and knowledge of corrections with his many students.
Frank loved his family deeply and was a good and true friend to many. He loved the outdoors and looked forward to spending time at his cabin in Arkansas. Frank was preceded in death by his father Orville Kyle. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Janet Blaize Kyle; his mother Marjorie Bigelow Kyle Franklin of Plain Dealing, LA; three cherished daughters. Colleen Potkay and husband Charlie of Pom-pano Beach, FL; Megan Mills and husband Ray of Prairieville, LA; and Kelly Kyle of Baton Rouge, LA; two very special grandsons, Richie Brackin and James Mills.
In addition, he is survived by three brothers, Jimmie Kyle of Ashdown, AR: Lynn Franklin of Texarkana, AR; and Bruce Franklin of Plain Dealing, LA; a sisler Mary Jo Gamez of San Antonio, TX; and a foster sister, Jannett Sims of Ozark, AL. Pall bearers will be Jimmie Kyle, Lynn Franklin, Bruce Franklin, Paul Gamez, Wayne Sims, Richie Brackin, Gary Wyche, and Jim White. Honorary pall bearers are the officers of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole, and James Mills. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the American Heart Association or to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, a special favorite of Frank's.
Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, Inc. Southside Chapel 318-687-1256 III i nil 'lit Reverend George F. Pearce, Jr. SHREVEPORT, LA "The service of Celebration of the life of George F. Pearce, Jr.
will joyfully be held at the Broadmoor Methodist Church (3715 Youree Shreveport 71105) this Friday.February 25, 2005 at 10 A.M. It will be officiated by Rev. Steven Spurlock and Dr. Jack O'Dell. George was preceded in death by his wife, Frances McCoy Pearce and his nephew, Shannon Pearce Brown.
He is survived by his brother, Milton Pearce; children, Glenelle Brown and husband, Nettles, Don Pearce and wife, Linda, Jean Bodenhamer and her husband, Ronny and Carl Pearce; grandchildren, Lesh Brown, Breanna Shumphert, Lisa Soloman, Maria Moore, Ben Pearce, Kalee Duesing, and Kristin Pearce; and 8 great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Broadmoor Methodist Church (address above) or the George F. Pearce, Jr. Scholarship Fund at Centenary College (291 1 Centenary Blvd, Shreveport 71101) James Cortez Wise, Jr. COLQUITT, LA Mourned by a large family and the many friends of a lifetime spent in service to his nation, his neighbors, and his community, James Cortez Wise, Jr.
departed this life at his home in Colquitt, Louisiana, Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005 after a long illness. Born 25 Jul 1920 in Mansfield, LA, Cortez grew up in Mansfield and Leesville, LA, and lived for a time in Thomasville, GA, until the family moved in 1953 to the home in which his father was born in the community of Colquitt, near Haynesville, LA. Cap-. tain James Cortez Wise, USAF, retired, served in both WWII and the Korean War. He was a member of the Colquitt Baptist Church, a building contractor, a founding board member of the North Claiborne Hospital, and a contributor to the life of the Colquitt and Haynesville communities for many years.
He is mourned by his children and their spouses: Dot Dave Wirth of i Baton Rouge; Sue Merrell Knighten of Shreveport; Marie John Hardy of Great Cacapon, West Virginia; and Bobby Parti Wise of Colquitt; as well as by his grandchildren and their spouses, Laura Jean Wirth of Baton Rouge; Billy Renee Wirth of Hum-f ble, TX; David Tressa Knighten of Oak Grove; Michael Knighten of San Jose, California; Thomas Stephanie Knighten of Richmond, Virginia; Pat-; rick Joanne Knighten of Norman, Oklahoma; Lauren Wise and Brandon Wise of Colquitt. Cortez also considered himself blessed with four great-grandchildren, Jered Petrie, Derek Wirth, and Mason and Madelyn Knighten, one great- great granddaughter, Layla Petrie, and a host of other relatives and friends. He was predeceased by his be-, loved wife of 59 years, Bernice Andrews Wise; two sons, James Thomas "Jim" Wise and William Cortez "Corky" Wise; his parents, James Cor-! tez Wise, and Ruth Maddox Wise, and one brother, Clayton Ernest Wise. His paternal great-great grandparents James and Parmelia Miller Wise were among the early settlers of Claiborne Parish while his maternal great- grandparents William Lihew and Anna Bell Broom Maddox were among the early settlers of Sabine Parish. Visitation will be held 6-8 p.m.
on Thursday at Bailey Funeral Home in Haynesville. Services will be held at the Colquitt Community Center at 2 o'clock on Friday, Feb 25, 2005 with Rev. Shelby Cowling officiating, assisted by Rev. Ed Frankie. Pallbearers: his grandsons David, Michael, Thomas and Patrick Knighten and Billy Wirth and his longtime friend and cousin, Howard Odom.
Honorary pallbearers: Roy Odom, John Harson, Jimmie, Bobby and Freddie Anderson. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, Colquitt Baptist Church, or the charity of your choice. Bailey Funeral Home Haynesville, LA 318-624-0366 ROYCE CITY, TX Mr. Roy Walter Simmons gone to see God in Paradise on Monday, February 21, 2005 in his home at the age of 79. He was born July 15, 1925 in Homer, LA to the late Robert C.
Simmons, Sr. and Cleo Hattie Simmons. Funeral services will' be held at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel, Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 11:30 a.m. Reverend Nolan Logan will preside. Interment will follow in Forest Park West Cemetery, Meriwether Road.
Mr. Simmons proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy Seabees, 90th Battalion during WWII in Iwo Jima. He is survived by his children, Chere' Denise Simmons and Joel Chesley Simmons; sister, Billie Strong: brother, Robert Simmons; grandchildren, Christophor Don Garnet, Mechael Chere' Peck and Cheyenne Luke Murdock; and two great-grandchildren. Roy, my Dad, was a loved father and grandfather.
He was a good man and will be very deeply missed. Rose-Neath Funeral Home Southside Chapel. 687-1256 In Memory of Nicole Danielle Coleman 060981 022403 In loving memory of our angel. Mom, Rhonda, and Tiffany 1 Mr. John Franklin Clark SHREVEPORT.
LA Mr. John Franklin Clark. 89, died at Cornerstone Hospital on Sunday. February 20, 2005 after a brief illness. Visitation was held at Osborn Funeral Home on Wednesday, February 23, from 5:00 p.m.
until 7:00 p.m. Graveside services will begin at 2:00 p.m. on February 24, 2005, at Forest Park West. Officiating will be Reverend Scott Tatum ot Broadmoor Baptist Church, Mr. Clark was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana and a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church.
He came to Shreveport in 1936 to play quarterback for Centenary College where he met his sweetheart. Eilleen Maynard. They later married at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas before his deployment overseas. With Americas entry into WWII, he became a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot, flying dozens of missions over Central Europe where he was shot down and wounded in September, 1943, becoming a POW until an April. 1944 liberation.
He later became the principal partner of Maynard, Clark Teasley Insurance Agency and a founding member of East Ridge Country Club. Mr. Clark was a participant in good measure of the greatest generation which, as its numbers now rapidly dimmish, looms ever larger in the grateful memory of its children Mr. Clark was preceded in death by his daughter, Marian Clark and His parents, Henry Peary and Mary Michell Clark. He is survived by his wife of 64 years.
Eilleen Maynard Clark; daughter Suzanne Clark Proctor and her husband. Lloyd Proctor and daughter, Leslie Proctor: sons John (Jeff) Franklin Clark Jr. and Charles (Chuck) Maynard Clark and his wife. Tanya Andrews Clark: sister Gladys Clark Tibbitt of Independence. Kansas: brother Henry Perry (H Clark of Tulsa, Oklahoma: and sister-in-law Jeanne Maynard.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dave Hodnert, Raymond Teaslev. Tommy Howard. Bobby Spells, Ed Whitehurst, and Cotton Barnes. The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Dr. Nick S7eiitmmai of Willis-Knighton Pierremont and the wonderful staff of Cornerstone Hospital of Bossier City.
JL i ft if Mr. John William "Bill" Knight, III SHREVEPORT, LA Mr. John William "Bill" Knight, III passed away in Shreveport on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 after a brief illness. Graveside services will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, February 25 at Forest Park Cemetery.
Mr. Knight was a native and lifelong resident of Shreveport. He was a member of the N.R.A. and a local ham radio club. Mr.
Knight was preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Frances Sledge Knight. He is survived by his two brothers, Robson Knight, of Houston, TX and David Hughes Knight and wife, Judie, of Salt Lake City, UT; uncle, John Carpenter, of Shreveport; cousins, Diane Jennings, Russell Carpenter, Eileen Bettevy, William and Lynda Cupples. Honorary pallbearers will be JohnStalnaker and Bill DuBois. Osborn Funeral Home 865-8426 Mr. Bill Wheeler DODDRIDGE, AR Graveside services for Bill Wheeler will be held on Friday, February 25, 2005, at 11:00 AM at Mt.
Zion Cemetery in Doddridge, AR. The family will be receiving friends at Boone Funeral Home, Shreveport Chapel on Thursday from 6-8 PM. Boone Funeral Home Shreveport Chapel 688-5509 Reita Laverne Reeves RUSTON, LA Funeral services for Reita Laverne Reeves will be held 10:00 AM Friday, February 25 at the Chapel of Kilpatrick's Funeral Home in Ruston. Visitation will be Thursday, February 24 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Mrs.
Reeves was born January 22, 1925 and died February 22, 2005. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lillie and Wesley Rea. Mrs. Reeves was a loving mother and devoted wife. She worked with her husband in his State Farm Insurance Agency until retirement.
She was a member of Cook Baptist Church for many years where she served faithfully in several capacities. In later life, she became a member of Temple Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband of 57 years, J. E. Reeves, two sons, Gene Reeves and wife Alicia; and Dean Reeves; one daughter, Reita Reeves; five grandchildren, Allison Granger and husband, David; Angie Johnson and husband.
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Mrs. Eilleen Maynard Clark SHREVEPORT. LA Mrs. Eilleen Maynard Clark, 84. died at Cornerstone Hospital on Tuesday.
February 22, 2005m after a brief illness. Visitation was held at Osborn Funeral Home on Wednesday, February 23, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Graveside services will begin at 2:00 p.m. on February 24, 2005.
at Forest Park West. Officiation will be Reverend Scott Tatum of Broadmoor Baptist Church. Mrs. Clark was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana and a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church. She graduated Centenary College and was a member of the Centenary College Maroon Jackets.
It was there she also won the heart of her future husband. John Franklin Clark, whom she wed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas before his deployment overseas during WWII. Mrs, Clark was a member of the Springlake Garden Club and Sequela, but her true lite passion was being a devoted wie and mother. Her body we give back to the earth, and her spirit we commend into the loving hands that made her out ol that earth and all that lives upon it. Mrs.
Clark was preceded in death by her loving husband, John Franklin Clark: her daughter, Marian Clark: and her parents. Victor Pearl and Rubye Love Maynard. She is survived by her daughter Suzanne Clark Proctor and her husband. Lloyd Proctor and daughter. Leslie Proctor; sons John (Jefi) Franklin Clark Jr.
and Charles (Chuck) Maynard Clark and his wife. Tanya Andrews Clark; sister Jeanne Maynard: sister-in-law. Gladys Clark Tibbitt of Independence Kansas; and brother in law Henry Perry (H.P.) Clark of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Honorary pallbearers will be Dave Hodnert, Raymond Teasley. Tommy Howard, Bobby Spells.
Ed Whitehurst and Cotton Barnes. The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Dr. Nick Szentirimai of Willis-Knighton Pierremont and the wonderful staff of Cornerstone Hospital of Bossier City. Air Repai New Location 1003 Jeter Off Hwy 80 Check out systems, home air filtration, digital comfort controls and more! Merryl Dell Presson GOLDONNA, LA Merryl Dell Presson, 62, departed this life at Christus St. Francis Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, LA on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 after a very long and courageous battle with heart disease.
She was a hair dresser for several years in Shreveport, LA and has been a homemaker for the past 25 years. Mrs. Presson was preceded in death by her son Jimmy Twitty and her father Edwin Ted Knott. She is survived by her husband Bobby Dale Presson, Sr. of Goldonna, LA; one daughter, Stephanie Crowder and husband Tim of Coushatta, LA; three sons: Eddie Twitty of Doyline, LA, Bobby Dale Presson, Jr.
of Haughton, LA and Steven Michael Presson of Shreveport, LA; her mother Beulah Mae Cryer of Shreveport, LA; one sister, Peggy Jean Kyle of Goldonna, LA: three brothers, Bobby Knott of Shreveport, LA, Ricky Knott of Oklahoma City, OK and Micky Knott of Oklahoma City, OK. She is also survived by five beloved grandchildren: Jeffrey Castle, Frankie Castle, Katie Twitty, Nicky Twitty and Taylor Presson as well as a large extended family and many friends and loved ones. Services will be held at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home Chapel in Natchitoches, LA at 10 a.m. on Friday, February 25, 2005 officiated by her brother-in-law Rev.
Harry L. Wales of Oklahoma City, OK. Burial will be in the Friendship Nazarene Cemetery in Robeline, LA. Visitation will be held Thursday evening from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.
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10 SEER Standard Series S925 $975 Alyne Laird SHREVEPORT, LA Graveside for Alyne Laird will be held at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 24, 2005 at Forest Park Cemetery, St. Vincent Avenue. Officiating will be Rev. Clarence Chism. The family invites and will receive friends from 6:00 p.m.
until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at Rose-Neath Marshall Street Funeral Home. Mrs. Laird was born October 19, 1920 in Longstreet, LA and passed away Sunday. February 20, 2005 in Shreveport, LA following a brief ill- ness. A resident of Shreveport for 42 years, she was a Baptist Her parents; husband, Charles Laird; sister, Murtis Waites; and brothers, Maxie, Billy, Doyle and Alvin Waites preceded her in death.
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