Obituaries for May 14, 2024

Funeral services honoring the life of Roland Ray Terrell will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 2:00 PM, at First Baptist Church in Leesville with Reverend Craig Forgue officiating. Interment will follow in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be on Wednesday at the church from 12:30 PM until the time of service. Roland Ray Terrell passed away on May 12, 2024, in Leesville, LA at the age of 89.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A memorial service to honor the life of Dora Pena Desidere will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. in the chapel of Labby Memorial Funeral Home of Leesville. Burial will be held at a later date for Dora Pena Desidere who passed away on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in Alexandria, Louisiana.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Steven Howard Hall, 76, of New Llano, funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at Labby Memorial Funeral Home in Leesville, Louisiana, with Claude Freeman officiating. Burial will follow at Central Louisiana Veterans Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. in Leesville, Louisiana. The visitation will be on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Former State Senator James David Cain passed away at his home on Wednesday night. Family will receive friends from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, May 16, 2024, at Grace Church. Funeral service will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, May 17, 2024, at Grace Church, 111 S. Texas St., DeRidder, Louisiana. Interment to follow at Magnolia Cemetery, Ragley, Louisiana.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pastor Glenn Ray Foster, 71, of DeRidder, LA, passed from this life on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Visitation will be held on Friday, May 17, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Myers Colonial Funeral Home in DeRidder, LA. Visitation will continue Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 10:00 AM until the time of the funeral service at 11:00 AM at United Christian Fellowship at 710 Rusk St., Newton, TX. Burial will follow at Belgrade Cemetery in Bon Wier, TX.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Funeral services honoring the life of Jimmy Ray Fleniken will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at Hearts United Christian Fellowship Church, Evans, LA, at 2:00 PM with Reverend Todd Egan officiating. Interment will follow in Plunkaway Cemetery Visitation will be held on Friday, May 17, 2024, from 4:00-8:00 PM at Johnson and Robinson Funeral Home, in Sulphur, LA, and again on Saturday, from 10:00 AM until time of service at Hearts United Christian Fellowship Church in Evans. Jimmy Ray Fleniken passed away on May 14, 2024, in Burr Ferry, LA at the age of 68                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Veta M. Simmons, 94, of DeRidder, LA, passed from this life on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at her home. Visitation will begin Saturday May 18, 2024, from 10:00 AM until the time of the service which begins at 12:00 PM, at Grace Church in DeRidder, LA with Rev. George Lee Glass, pastor, Rev. Ralph Sikes, and Bro. Jerome Hayes officiating. Interment will follow at Beauregard Cemetery in DeRidder, LA.

Author: Eli Gentry