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Chris Micheal Garsee

Chris Micheal Garsee

Sep 6, 2025

Funeral Services for Chris Garsee will be held 2:00 PM, September 10, 2025 at Clarks Baptist Church with Bro. Jack McKeithen officiating and interment following in Columbia Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held 12:00 until time of service at 2:00. 

Chris Micheal Garsee was born May 4, 1986 in Monroe, Louisiana to the union of his parents, Rickey Garsee and Ann...

Ellen Bernelle Faulk Moseley

Ellen Bernelle Faulk Moseley

Sep 5, 2025

Graveside funeral services for Ellen Bernelle Faulk Moseley will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, September 8, 2025, at Burroughs Garden of Memories in Columbia, Louisiana. Family and friends will begin gathering at the graveside at 10:45 Monday morning. The family will have visitation at Riser and Son Funeral Home in Columbia, on Sunday, September 7, 2025, from 5:00 PM...

Inez Bailey

Inez Bailey

Sep 1, 2025

Funeral Services for Inez Bailey will be held 2:00 PM, Thursday, September 4, 2025 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Columbia, La with interment following in Fellowship Cemetery under the direction of Riser Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 12:00 until time of service at 2:00.

Inez Catherine May Bailey was born February 1, 1932 in Columbia, Louisiana to the union...

Patricia Ann Busby

Patricia Ann Busby

Aug 30, 2025

Patricia Ann Grant Busby was born November 27, 1947, in Monroe, Louisiana to the union of Otho Ocie Grant and Gloria Muriel Harper Tarver and she passed from this life on August 30, 2025, at Citizens Medical Center in Columbia, Louisiana. She was a kind, loving person who loved fishing and going to rummage sales. Patricia is preceded in death...

Royce Dwain Johnson Sr

Royce Dwain Johnson Sr

Aug 24, 2025

Funeral services for RD Johnson, Sr., age 85 of Grayson, will be held at 2 PM Saturday, August 30, 2025, at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia. Interment will follow at Old Union Cemetery, west of Grayson. Visitation will be on Saturday, August 30, 2025, from 12 to 2 PM at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia. 

Royce Dwain Johnson Sr was born...

Sharleen Lerae Keesler

Sharleen Lerae Keesler

Aug 22, 2025

Sharleen Lerae Horne Keesler was born October 10, 1988, in Paris, Arkansas, and she passed from this life on August 22, 2025, in Columbia, Louisiana. She left this world too early and will be missed by many. She was preceded in death by her father, David Horne; her mother, Barbara Horne Tassin; her grandmother, Earline Jones; and grandfather, Colin Douglas...

Lisa A Johnson

Lisa A Johnson

Aug 17, 2025

Lisa A. Johnson

December 17, 1975 – August 17, 2025



Lisa A. Johnson, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully at her home on August 17, 2025, at the age of 49. Born December 17, 1975, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Lisa was a woman whose heart was as big as her laugh — both of which touched everyone lucky enough to...

Rita Moore Carr

Rita Moore Carr

Aug 16, 2025

Rita Moore Carr was born March 29, 1936, in Opelousas, LA, to the union of her parents, Alfred and Adaline Stelly Moore, and she passed from this life August 16, 2025, at Haven Nursing Home. Rita loved the Lord, going to church, and singing worship songs. She always enjoyed cooking her famous Cajun cuisine, which consist of turtle sauce picante,...

Barbara "Bobbye" Knight

Barbara "Bobbye" Knight

Aug 14, 2025

BARBARA “BOBBIE” JEANETTE DUMAS-KNIGHT

was born on December 12,1941 and passed from this place on August 14, 2025.

She was preceded in death by her husband Robert Eugene Knight and her eldest son Mark William Knight, her younger brother Gerald Dumas and her sister Donna Lyn Dumas-Mills as well as her parents William Travis Dumas and Myrtie Moore-Dumas.

Bobbie leaves behind her two...

Dustin Bruce DeMoss

Dustin Bruce DeMoss

Aug 11, 2025

Funeral services for Dustin Bruce DeMoss will be held at 11:00 AM, Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Grayson, LA, with Bro. Dallas DeMoss officiating and Charles Yeats offering the eulogy. Interment will follow at Burroughs Garden of Memories, Columbia, LA, under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home. The family will have visitation at...

Alford Mark Robertson

Alford Mark Robertson

Aug 10, 2025

Alford Mark Robertson, age 83, was born on February 14,1942, to the union of his parents, Rev. Almer and Effie Robertson, and he passed away at his home in Hebert, LA, on August 10, 2025, after a brief illness. Alford had a long career as a mechanic. He loved to fish and do wordworking. He is preceded in death by...

Lizabeth Ann Marie Norton

Lizabeth Ann Marie Norton

Aug 7, 2025

Funeral service for Ann Norton will be held 10:00 AM, Monday, August 11, 2025 at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia, La with Bro. Shane Duke reading the Eulogy and Chris Wyant delivering the message with interment following in Columbia Hill Cemetery under the direction of Riser Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Sunday at Riser Funeral Home from 5:00 PM...

Clara Frances Dulaney

Clara Frances Dulaney

Aug 6, 2025

Funeral services for Clara Frances Duncan Dulaney, age 93 of Hebert, LA, will be held 2:00 PM, Sunday, August 10, 2025, from the Columbia chapel of Riser & Son Funeral Home with Bro. Clyde Fowler and Bro. Randy Hatten officiating. Interment will follow in the Dulaney Cemetery at Sikes in Winn Parish, Louisiana. The Dulaney Family will receive visitors on...

Freda Dorcas Tolbert

Freda Dorcas Tolbert

Aug 3, 2025

Graveside services for Dorcas Tolbert will be held 10:30 Saturday, August 9, 2025 at Welcome Home Cemetery with Bro. Elgin McFadden officiating. Visitation will be held from 10:00 AM until time of service at 10:30 AM.

Freda Dorcas Franklin Tolbert was born in Rosefield on April 13, 1942 to the union of her parents, Homer Carey Franklin and Freddie Florence Clark...

Frances Duchesne Oliveaux

Frances Duchesne Oliveaux

Aug 3, 2025

Frances Louise Duchesne Oliveaux, age 90, of Hebert, LA passed away Aug. 3, 2025, at the Haven Nursing Center in Columbia, La.

She was born Dec. 16, 1934 in Hebert, LA, to Clarence "Son" and Emma Gorton Duchesne. Frances, a Hebert native, attended Mangham High School and later married Ellie Oliveaux on Dec. 22, 1954.She worked at Oliveaux Grocery for many...

Leslie Richard Hill

Leslie Richard Hill

Aug 2, 2025

Leslie "Richard" Hill was born on June 16, 1936, in Los Angeles, California, and peacefully passed from this life on August 2, 2025, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri.

Professionally, Richard was an alarm technician, a career that he enjoyed for over thirty years. He was a devoted husband to Sandra Kay Hill, sharing 26 beautiful years of marriage. Their bond...

Noah Arnaldo Santos Ortiz

Noah Arnaldo Santos Ortiz

Jul 28, 2025

Noah Arnaldo Santos Ortiz was delivered into this world asleep in the arms of Jesus on July 28, 2025, at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe. His parents, Asly Carolina Ortiz and Juan Arnaldo Santos, along with other family members will say goodbye at a graveside funeral service to be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, August 1, 2025, at Columbia...

John Wesley Stinson

John Wesley Stinson

Jul 27, 2025

Funeral services for John Wesley Stinson will be held 2:00 PM Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia, Louisiana with interment following in Old Bethel Cemetery under the direction of Riser Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 11:00 AM until time of service at 2:00PM.

John Wesley Stinson was born in Jackson, Mississippi on July 10, 1944...

Joy Ivy Davis

Joy Ivy Davis

Jul 25, 2025

Funeral services for Joy Ivy Davis will be held at 10:00 AM, Monday, July 28, 2025, from the chapel of Riser and Son Funeral Home, Columbia, LA, with long-time friend, Bro. Jack McKeithen officiating. Interment will follow at Holum Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will have visitation on Sunday, July 27, 2025, at the funeral home from 5:00 PM until...

Krystal Michele Poole

Krystal Michele Poole

Jul 24, 2025

Funeral services for Krystal Michele Lovett Poole will be held 11:00 AM, Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia, Louisiana with Bro. Stephen Laughlin officiating and interment following in Welcome Home Cemetery under the direction of Riser Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Monday, August 4, 2025 at Riser Funeral Home from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM.

Krystal...