Lesa Michelle Crawford

Funeral services for Lesa Michelle Crawford, age 51, of Olla, LA will be held 10:00 AM, Thursday, June 3, 2021 from the sanctuary of Standard Baptist Church with Brother Kent Nugent and Bro. Phillip Crawford officiating. Interment will follow in the Rosefield Cemetery under the direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home. The Crawford family will receive visitors on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at the church from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

Lesa Michelle Crawford was born on March 19, 1970 at Columbia, LA to the union of her parents, Sullivan Phillip Crawford, Sr. and Betty Jean McCormick Crawford, and she passed from this life on May 31, 2021 at the Christus St Francis Cabrini Medical Center in Alexandria following an extended illness. Lesa enjoyed working in her yard and growing flowers, decorating, sewing, crafts, her grandchildren and mischief. To know Lesa was to love her and she will be missed by friends and family alike. She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Merle Crawford; and her favorite sister-in-law, Mrs. Virginia Crawford.

Left to cherish her memory are her sons: Johnathan Crawford, known to everyone as “Payroll” and Jacob Crawford and wife, Hannah; her daughter, Jennifer Gardner and husband, Avery; her brother, “Big Phil” Phillip Crawford and wife, Margaret; her beloved grandchildren: Hagan Crawford, Sully Gardner, Josephine Gardner, Levi Pruett and Augustus Crawford; her nephew, Little Phil (Ashley) ; her niece, Tiffany Taylor (Michael) and a host of great-nieces. She had many cousins who were like sisters and brothers.

Serving as pallbearers will be Chuck Kelley, Mark Kelley, Jordy Boyett, Juston Boyett, Adrian Crawford and Jordan Mitchell. Honorary pallbearers include Chet Whatley, K. C. Richey, Josh Kelley, Will Walker, Cody Bailes, Joe Temple, Brian Welch and Todd Frizzell.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Riser & Son Funeral Home, P.O. Box 57, Columbia, LA, to help defray funeral expenses.

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