Obituaries
Lillie McDermitt
Dec 18, 2012
A service to honor the life of Mrs. Lillie McDermitt will be 12 noon on Thursday, December 20, 2012 in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Colfax Cemetery in Colfax, LA. The family will receive friends from 9 am until service time on Thursday the 20th at Blanchard St. Denis. Mrs. McDermitt passed away...
Walter Ledet
Dec 14, 2012
Walter Ledet, Northwestern State's first All-America football player who became a legendary coaching figure, a high-ranking university administrator and an influential leader in Natchitoches, died Friday at age 93. Ledet, an Abbeville native, was a 1938 Little All-America guard who spurned a contract offer from the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles to remain in Natchitoches and at Northwestern State as an assistant...
Norm Fletcher
Dec 14, 2012
Norm Fletcher, a Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame member for his broadcasting career who also was elected three times as Natchitoches Parish sheriff, died at age 82 Friday afternoon in the Natchitoches Regional Medical Center. Fletcher, a Natchitoches native, was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 2010 as he received the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism from the...
Evelyn Miller
Dec 13, 2012
Funeral service for Evelyn Miller will be held at 10:00 am on Monday, December 17, 2012 at Blanchard - St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches, LA with Rev. Danny Keyes officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA. The family will receive friends from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm on December 16, 2012 at Blanchard - St....
Winnie Mae Whitney Waddle
Dec 12, 2012
Funeral service for Winnie Mae Waddle will be held at 2 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012 at Blanchard - St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches, LA with Dr. Dwight St. Andre and Dr. Mike Honzell officiating. Interment will follow at L.C. Weaver Cemetery in Campti, LA. The family will receive friends from 5 pm until 7 pm on December...
Bobby W. Deen
Dec 11, 2012
Bobby Wayne Deen died on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 in a Shreveport hospital. Bobby was born to Audrey and Lonnie Deen on October 17, 1941. Visitation will be Friday, December 14th from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches, and recitation of the Rosary will be at 6:00 p.m. The funeral service will be...
Alberta L. Conlay
Dec 11, 2012
Funeral services for Alberta L. Conlay will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, the 14th of December 2012 in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches with Bro. Truman Leach and Bro. Elton Gunter to officiate. Burial will follow in Weaver Cemetery in Chestnut. Visitation will be held on Thursday evening from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m....
Gloria Ann "Sue" Lemoine
Dec 11, 2012
Funeral services for Gloria “Sue” Hebert Lemoine will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, December 14, 2012 at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches with Fr. Ryan Humphries officiating. The family will receive friends from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches,...
James H. "Jack" Nelson
Dec 10, 2012
Funeral services to honor the life of James H. “Jack” Nelson will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, the 13th of December 2012, in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches with Bro.Clyde Miley and Bro. Joel Johnson to officiate. Burial will follow in Lambertown Cemetery in Robeline. Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. until 8...
Sarah Alice (Wheat) Dralle
Dec 10, 2012
Sarah Alice Wheat Dralle, age 72, daughter of Kenneth Wheat and Reba Spann Wheat, former residents of Natchitoches, Louisiana, passed away December 10, 2012, in Crossett, Arkansas. Graveside services are scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Thursday, December 13, at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches with Rev. Linda Clark officiating. Visitation will be from 1:00 until 3:00 p.m. at Blanchard St. Denis...
Justin Lane Wilson
Dec 9, 2012
Funeral Services for Justin Wilson will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, the 13th December 2012 at the Provencal First Baptist Church with Bro. Roger Matkin to officiate. Burial will follow in the Hickory Grove Cemetery in Vowells Mill. Visitation will be held on Wednesday evening beginning at 5 p.m. and continuing until service time the following day at...
James "Jim" Werner Pierson
Dec 8, 2012
James Werner “Jim” Pierson, 62, died Saturday, December 8, 2012, in his home with his beloved wife of 41 years, Michele Loe Pierson, at his side. Jim is survived by his sons, Ed and wife Anne Pierson of Duluth, Georgia and Greg Pierson of Baton Rouge; grandsons, Tyler and Nicholas Pierson of Natchitoches, and Jack Pierson of Duluth, Georgia; mother,...
Sue Gail Stroud Dearman
Dec 4, 2012
A Mass of Christian Burial for Sue Stroud Dearman will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, December 15, 2012, at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana. Father Michael Craig Scott will officiate, assisted by Deacon John Whitehead. Prior to mass, the family will receive friends at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m....
Catherine Kay
Dec 2, 2012
A service to celebrate the life of Catherine M. Kay will be 2 pm Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in the chapel of Blanchard St. Denis with Bro. Randy Olliff officiating. Interment will follow at Weaver Cemetery in Flora, LA. The family will receive friends from 5 pm until 9 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at Blanchard St. Denis. Mrs....
Julia Laverne Allen
Nov 29, 2012
A service to honor the life of Julia Laverne Allen will be 11 am Saturday, December 1, 2012 at Red Bluff Baptist Church Cemetery near Greensburg, LA with Richard Bean officiating. Interment will follow next to her husband, Cleon Earl Allen. Mrs. Allen, 85 years of age, passed away Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Natchitoches. She was born in McComb,...
Thomas Dupree
Nov 27, 2012
Funeral Services for Thomas Dupree will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, the 8th of December 2012 at the St. Augustine Catholic Church in Melrose. Burial will follow in St. Augustine Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday morning from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home. Mr. Thomas Dupree is survived by his survived by his...
Richard T. Johnson, Jr.
Nov 27, 2012
Funeral service for Richard Turner Johnson, Jr. will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, November 30, 2012 at Blanchard - St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches, LA with US Army Chaplain Col. Lee Dickson (ret.) officiating. Interment will follow at American Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA. The family will receive friends from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm on November 29,...
Betty Jo Ballard Hall
Nov 27, 2012
Betty Jo Ballard Hall age 88 died in Marthaville, LA on November 27, 2012. She was born in Jefferson, TX in 1924. She was married to James L. Hall for 59 years, and had two daughters: Tama Jo and Jamy. She is survived by: daughter Jamy Grant, grandsons James and David Grant, great granddaughters Callia, Autumn, Katherine, Rebekah, and Elisabeth....
L.V. Rhymes
Nov 20, 2012
Funeral Services for Mr. L.V. Rhymes will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, the 23rd of November 2012 in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches with Bro. Rod Bedgood to serve as celebrant. Burial will follow in the Yankee Springs Cemetery near Goldonna. Friends are invited to visitation with the family Friday morning beginning at 9...
Freeman Oneal Holland
Nov 18, 2012
A graveside service for Freeman Holland will be 10 am Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at Hickory Grove Cemetery in Vowells Mill, LA with Bro. James McDonald officiating. The family will receive friends from 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm on Monday November 19, 2012 at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home. Mr. Holland, 86 years of age, passed away Sunday, November 18,...
