Linda Dupree Dowling
September 13, 1950 – August 28, 2025
Service: Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 1pm at First Methodist Church, Shreveport.

Sherwood Alan Searcy
June 12, 1943 – August 26, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 12:30pm at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Shreveport.

Janie Marie Wilson
February 3, 1953 – August 25, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 1pm at Heavenly Gates Funeral Home, Shreveport.

Betty Josephine LeFevre Formby
October 11, 1930 – August 24, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11am at Word of Faith Christian Fellowship, Bossier City.

Willie Wilson
October 21, 1944 – August 22, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 12pm at Upper Zion Baptist Church, Blanchard.

Carl Harvey
August 27, 1947 – August 20, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11am at Heavenly Gates Funeral Home, Shreveport.

LaShanti Lanise Speed
August 17, 2000 – August 20, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 1pm at Winnfield Funeral Home, Shreveport.

LaBriesha Ann Patterson
September 15, 1996 – August 18, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 10am at Greater New Zion Baptist Church, Belcher.

Marion Starks, Jr.
December 29, 1932 – August 18, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11am at Abounding Grace, Shreveport. 

Charles Blount
March 29, 1947 – August 16, 2025
Service: Friday, August 29, 2025, 11am at Zion Baptist – John H. Wilson Center, Shreveport.

Edward Lee Federick
October 19, 1936 – August 16, 2025
Service: Saturday, August 30, 2025, 1pm at Winnfield Funeral Home, Shreveport.

Wanda Cowling
November 29, 1945 – August 15, 2025
Service: Friday, September 5, 2025, 3pm at Aulds Funeral Home, Shreveport. 

Lisa M. Sager McCarty-Jackson
December 22, 1960 – August 8, 2025
Service: Sunday, August 31, 2025, 4pm at Life Church, Shreveport. 

Milton Ford Pearce
March 13, 1923 – August 7, 2025
Service: Saturday, September 6, 2025, 1pm at Broadmoor United Methodist Church, Shreveport. 

Wayland Bradley Bearden
July 10, 1954 – August 6, 2025
Service: Saturday, September 6, 2025, 11am at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Shreveport. 

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