Funeral service for James Leroy Johnston will be Saturday, February 1, 2025 at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home at 10:00 am. He will be laid to rest at Memory Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends for a visitation on Friday, January 31, 2025 from 5:00 pm until 7:00 at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Visitation for Mr. Robert Birdwellwill be held from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at Wyman Roberts Funeral Home, located at 316 W. Columbia Street in San Augustine. Funeral services are set for 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 30, 2025, at Trinity Baptist Church, located on FM 83 East in Broaddus, with Pastor Don Lofton and Charles Sharp officiating. Interment will follow at Liberty Hill Memorial Garden                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Elizabeth Ann DeRush Tyson (Liz) passed away on January 26, 2025. Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 10:00 A.M. at the Hicks Pentecostal Church with Bro. Louis Magee officiating. Burial will follow in the Glass Window Cemetary. Visitation will be held today from 5:00 P.M. until time of service at the church.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Sis Loretha Cecilia Williams departed this life on January 24, 2025. Visitation will be held today from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Myers Colonial Funeral Home in DeRidder, LA. Visitation will continue tomorrow, from 9:00 AM until the time of funeral service at 11:00 AM, also at Myers Colonial Funeral Home. Pastor Wilfert Williams will officiate the service. Burial will follow at Leesville Memorial Cemetery in Leesville, LA.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Opal Holaway, who left this world on January 25, 2025, at the age of 82. A funeral service to celebrate Opal’s life will be held at Myers Colonial Funeral Home on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 11:00 AM, with a public viewing taking place the day before on Friday, January 31, 2025, starting at 5:00 PM. Brother John Tellifero and Brother Chris Duhon will officiate the Service. Burial will follow at Beauregard Cemetery in DeRidder, LA.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     George Christopher White, passed away on January 20, 2025, in Pitkin. Funeral services will take place on Saturday February 1st at Gravel Hill Baptist Church at 2:00 P.M., officiated by Bro. Chad Estes alongside Bro Arlen Smith. Visitation will begin at the church from 9:00 A.M. until service time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Sammy Jack Bailey, Sr., 81, of Linden, TX passed away Thursday, January 23, 2025. Graveside service will be Saturday, February 1 at 1 pm at Old Cypress Cemetery. Rev. LeRoy Stracener and Rev. John Elliott will officiate.