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Mary Diana Spain
Dec 11, 2020
Mary Diana Spain age 45 of Columbia was born on June 4, 1975 in Stephens, Texas to the union of her parents, Mack Allen Spain, and Diana Mae Watson Spain. She passed from this life on December 11, 2020 at the Christus St Francis Cabrini Medical Center in Alexandria following an extended illness. She was preceded in death by her...
Elmer Lisenby
Dec 9, 2020
Funeral services for Elmer "Bubba" Lisenby will be Sunday, December 13, 2020 at Urania Pentecostal Church at 2:00 PM with Bro. Clay Hutto officiating. Interment will follow at the Olla cemetery, Visitation will be held Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Urania Pentecostal Church from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Elmer "Bubba" Lisenby, 85 of Olla passed from this life December...
James Frederick Sikes
Dec 9, 2020
James “PeeWee” Sikes, age 56, was born November 15, 1964 in Pineville, LA to the union of his parents, Fred Sikes and Eva Octavia Sanders Sikes. He passed from this life December 9, 2020 at Glenwood Medical Center. A memorial will be held Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 2:00 pm at Life Church in Columbia, LA. He was preceded in...
Lena Vonnez Reitzell
Dec 8, 2020
Graveside services for Lena Vonnez Reitzell will be Saturday December 12, 2020 at 2:00 in Old Bethel Cemetery with Waylan Piercy officiating. Visitation will be Saturday from 12:00 until 1:30 PM at the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Columbia La. Lena was born April 17, 1929 in Columbia, La. to the union of her parents Earnest Dunn and Annie...
Edna Williams Godwin
Dec 7, 2020
Edna McClanahan Williams Godwin passed onto her Heavenly Home on December 7, 2020, while at the Haven Nursing Home in Columbia, LA after a lengthy illness. Born in Caldwell Parish on October 6, 1923 to the union of Ruben McClanahan and Annie Hall McClanahan, Edna was a resident of Hebert, LA most of her life, moving to Columbia, LA in...
Gary Lee Poole
Dec 7, 2020
Gary Lee Poole, age 61, was born July 23, 1959 in Olla, LA to the union of his parents Howard Poole and Sherlene Rodgers Herrington. He passed from this life peacefully at home December 7, 2020. Gary was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Tommy Poole. Those left to cherish his memory are his step-mother, Mary Poole,...
William Edward Thompson
Dec 5, 2020
William Edward Thompson was born on January 12, 1936 in Copenhagen, Louisiana to the union of Jessie and Annie Mae Thompson. He passed from this life, surrounded by loved ones on December 5, 2020 at Baton Rouge General Hospital. He was preceded in death by his brother, James Oglethorpe. Left to cherish a lifetime of memories are his wife and...
Gerald Huey Childress
Dec 4, 2020
Gerald Huey Childress, businessman and lifelong resident of Caldwell Parish, went to his Heavenly Home on December 4, 2020 at Citizens Medical Center after an extended illness. He was 91. Family and close friends will gather for a Private Graveside Service on Tuesday, December 8, 2pm at Roberts Cemetery outside of Kelly LA with Bro. Warren Maxwell and Jay Minard...
Edna Bamburg Shipp
Dec 4, 2020
Funeral services for Edna Bamburg Shipp will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, December 7, 2020 at the chapel of Riser Funeral Home, Columbia, LA with Sister Kristi Dunn officiating and Eugene Dunn assisting. Interment will follow at Bethany Cemetery, Hebert, LA under the direction of Riser Funeral Home. The family will receive visitors on Sunday, December 6, 2020 from...
LaWana Kay Cowart
Dec 1, 2020
LaWana Kay Cowart, age 69, was born August 28, 1951 in Columbia, LA to the union of her parents, Lewis Kennedy and Jewel Parrish Kennedy. She passed from this life peacefully at home December 1, 2020. LaWana was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Lewis; sister, Janice, and a nephew, Billy. Those left to cherish her memory are her...
Evelyn Nanette Darden
Dec 1, 2020
Funeral services for Evelyn Nanette "Nancy" Darden will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, December 5, 2020 at Grayson Baptist Church, 915 Hwy 850, Grayson, LA with Bro. Rick Crandall officiating assisted by Eugene Dunn and Nick Rushing. Interment will follow at Welcome Home Cemetery, Grayson under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home, Columbia. The family will receive...
Billie Charlene Moulder
Nov 30, 2020
Billie Charlene Specht Moulder, a loving mother, wife, grandmother, and great grandmother, passed away on November 30, 2020, at the age of 89 in Winnsboro, Louisiana. She was born on May 15, 1931 in Smithfield, Texas as the seventh of nine children of Charles and Hellen Allen Zartman. The viewing will be held on December 5, 2020, at Riser Funeral...
Janice Elaine Jordan
Nov 29, 2020
Janice Elaine Jordan, age 72, of Columbia was born on August 27, 1948 at Kaufman, Texas to the union of her parents, Robert Edwin Jordan and Mary Ethel Turner Jordan. She passed from this life on November 29, 2020 at the Citizens Medical Center in Columbia. A memorial service will be held at a later time.
Randy M. Ainsworth
Nov 27, 2020
Graveside funeral services for Randy M. Ainsworth, age 65, of Grayson will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at Welcome Home Cemetery at Grayson with Rev. Jeff Masters officiating. Mr. Ainsworth will receive military honors. Eugene Dunn will deliver the eulogy. Services are under direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia. Randy M. Ainsworth was...
JoAnn Wallace
Nov 25, 2020
Funeral services for JoAnn Wallace, 86 of Columbia, will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday November 28, 2020 at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia. Bro Bruce McGee and Bro Shane Duke will be officiating. Graveside service will follow at Columbia Hill Cemetery. Visitation is scheduled for 1:00 PM the day of services. JoAnn was born December 23, 1933 in Winnfield,...
Elaine Kay Sikes Barnes
Nov 24, 2020
Elaine Kaye Barnes was born on May 7, 1948 at Monroe, LA to the union of her parents, Hansford Vernon Sikes and Martha Gracie Turner Sikes, and she passed from this life on November 24, 2020 at her residence in Columbia following an extended illness. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her husband: Tommy Barnes, two...
Norman Odell Winbery
Nov 22, 2020
Norman Odell Winbery, 85, passed from this life on Sunday, November 22, 2020 at Citizens Medical Center in Columbia. Odell was a resident of the The Haven Nursing Facility in Columbia. A private family graveside service will be held on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020, at 2PM at New Union cemetery with Rev. Lynn Wilson officiating. Odell was born on September...
Robert Eugene Kelly
Nov 22, 2020
Robert Eugene “Robby” Kelly was born June 10, 1986 at West Monroe, LA to the union of his parents, Robert Kelly and Eugenia Crawford Kelly, and he passed away on November 22, 2020 at his home in Monroe, LA. To know Robby was to love him. His humor and smile was contagious. He loved to study and learn about history....
Margaret Marie Hunt Vidrine
Nov 18, 2020
Margaret Marie Hunt Vidrine age 77 of Clarks, LA was born on December 18, 1943 at Clarks, LA to the union of her parents Harrison D. Hunt and Helen Perkins Hunt and passed from this life on November 18, 2020 at the Haven Nursing Center in Columbia following an extended illness. Margaret Marie made her living as an LPN and...
Jessie Lois Wiggins
Nov 15, 2020
Funeral services for Jessie Lois Wiggins age 82 of Jena will be held 2:00 PM Tuesday November 17, 2020 from the sanctuary of Zion Hill Baptist Church west of Olla, LA with Bro. Denver McBroom officiating. Interment will follow in the Zion Hill Cemetery under direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia and Olla. The Wiggins Family will...