Tyniece Janiya Haley
March 12, 2004 — March 5, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 1:00-4:00 p.m. at Good Samaritan Funeral Home, 2200 Laurel Street, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at New Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church, 2332 Jewella Avenue, Shreveport.
Interment: Saturday, March 18, 2023, following service at Lincoln Memorial Park, Shreveport.

Gary Lloyd Farthing
August 25, 1943 — March 6, 2023
Graveside Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Keithville.

Devette Adams
April 24, 1951 — March 7, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Graveside Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at Forest Park West Cemetery.

O. B. Hendrix
February 9, 1938 — March 9, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Graveside Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, 6915 W. 70th Street, Shreveport.

Barnette O’Neal
March 9, 2023 — March 10, 2023
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 6971 W. 70th Street, Shreveport.
Interment: Saturday, March 18, 2023, following service at Liberty CME Cemetery, Bethlehem.

Mary Thomas
July 15, 1926 — March 11, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Graveside Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, 6915 W. 70th Street, Shreveport.

Gracie Kelly Jones
May 29, 1943 — March 12, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. at Praise Temple Church.
Wake: Friday, March 17, 2023, 6:30 p.m. at Praise Temple Church.
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Praise Temple Church.
Interment: Saturday, March 18, 2023, following service at Carver Cemetery, Kennie Road, Shreveport.

Steven Mazel Shearin
June 5, 1968 — March 4, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Graveside Service: Monday, March 20, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Keithville.

Julia Carolyn Mullens Papageorge
March 29, 1930 — March 11, 2023
Graveside Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Cemetery, 5185 Swan Lake Road, Bossier City.

Charles Wayne Dietrich
August 29, 1943 — March 12, 2023
Visitation: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 3:00-4:00 p.m. at Fern Park Cemetery, 1560 Grace Avenue, Natchitoches.

Lillian Grace Perkins
March 28, 1991 — March 12, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 12:00-1:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport.
Interment: Friday, March 17, 2023, following service at Stonewall Cemetery, Stonewall.

Eugenia ‘Jeannie’ Zappa
February 3, 1940 — March 14, 2023
Memorial Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00a.m.-12:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 15274 Highway 9, Athens.

Heaven Leane Weed
January 19, 2000 — March 12, 2023
Visitation: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Boone Funeral Home and Crematory, 2156 Airline Drive, Bossier City.
Funeral Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at Blanchard Church of the Nazarene, 251 N. Main Street, Shreveport.

Buford ‘Gene’ Brownfield
February 15, 1932 — March 11, 2023
Funeral Service: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 2:00 p.m. at Centuries Memorial Funeral Home, 8801 Mansfield Road, Shreveport.

Donna Kay Stewart Rinaudo
October 11, 1964 — March 9, 2023
Celebration of Life: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at Centuries Memorial Funeral Home, 8801 Mansfield Road, Shreveport.

Vernia Ross
December 29, 1939 — March 4, 2023
Funeral Service: Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Winnfield Funeral Home, 3701 Hollywood Avenue, Shreveport.
Interment: Tuesday, March 21, 2023, following service at Forest Park East Cemetery, 3700 St. Vincent Avenue, Shreveport.

Otis Prince
August 11, 1944 — March 8, 2023
Graveside Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, 6915 W. 70th Street, Shreveport.

Edwina R. Goleman
September 2, 1938 — March 11, 2023
Visitation: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 10:00-11:00 a.m. at Aulds Funeral Home, 7849 East Kings Highway, Shreveport.

Harriet Gurley Smith
November 14, 1927 — March 12, 2023
Visitation: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Osborn Funeral Home, 3631 Southern Avenue, Shreveport.

Margie Blackwell
October 11, 1925 — February 27, 2023
Memorial Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 405 E. 5th Street, Homer.

Richard Roy Dancy
November 23, 1991 — March 13, 2023
Visitation: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport.
Memorial Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. at St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Stonewall.

Robert Lewis Davis, Sr.
November 13, 1931 — March 13, 2023
Funeral Service: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 522 E. Flournoy Lucas Road, Shreveport.

Jason Michael Mattingly, Jr.
April 21, 1991 — March 4, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 2:00-3:00 p.m. at Forest Park Funeral Home, 1201 Louisiana Avenue, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Friday, March 17, 2023, 3:00 p.m. at Forest Park Funeral Home, 1201 Louisiana Avenue, Shreveport.

Viola Wright
August 13, 1941 — March 9, 2023
Memorial Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at New Greenwood Baptist Church, 7480 Greenwood Springridge Road, Greenwood.

David Lee Alfred
August 12, 1947 — March 8, 2023
Visitation: Sunday, March 19, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Monday, March 20, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Interment: Monday, March 20, 2023, following service at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Keithville.

Elnora Jordan
October 28, 1948 — March 6, 2023
Visitation: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. at Heavenly Gates, 1339 Jewell Street, Shreveport.
Funeral Service: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 11:00 a.m. at Union Star Baptist Church, 600 W. 65th Street, Shreveport.
Graveside Service: Monday, March 20, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Keithville.

Bobby Ray Pugh
February 5, 1943 — March 10, 2023
Funeral Service: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 12:00-1:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport.
Interment: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Forest Park West Cemetery, 4400 Meriwether Road, Shreveport.

Joe Bill Gamble
December 7, 1954 — March 6, 2023
Memorial Service: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 3:00-4:00 p.m. at VFW Hunter-Rickerson Post 2885, 232 Horseshoe Loop, Doyline.

Ginger Dawn Fleming
October 11, 1951 — February 19, 2023
Memorial Service: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 3:30-4:30 p.m. at United Pentacostal Church of Benton, 220 Pine Street, Benton.

Freddy Bruce Studdard
May 4, 1946 — December 23, 2022
Graveside Service: Saturday, April 15, 2023, 1:00-1:30 p.m. at Mount Paran Cemetery, 3749 Mt. Paran Church Road, Social Circle, Ga.

Robert T. Stinson III
June 6, 1946 — January 29, 2023
Celebration of Life: Saturday, March 25, 2023, 1:00 p.m. at 220 Cash Point Road, Bossier City. (In case of inclement weather, the celebration will be held at Benton Methodist Church, 4615 Palmetto Road, Benton.)

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