Obituaries for May 16, 2024

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., this evening 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 for Doris Yvonne Rogers, 83, of Ragley will be held at 2 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at Labby Memorial Funeral Home in DeRidder. Pastor Timmy Straight will be officiating. Burial will follow at Magnolia Cemetery in Ragley. Visitation with be on Saturday, May 18 from 12 noon to 2 pm before the service. Doris Yvonne (Dukes) Rogers known as Yvonne, passed away May 12, 2024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Earl Gene Colton, Sr., 77, of Deridder, LA, departed this earthly life on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Visitation will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 9:00 AM until the time of the funeral at 10:00 AM at Myers Colonial Funeral Home in DeRidder, LA. Reverend Daniel Stafford will officiate the service.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Funeral services for Stanley Welch, Jr. of Leesville, will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Monday, May 20, 2024, at the Labby Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Leesville, Louisiana. Burial will follow in the Central Louisiana Veterans Cemetery. Visitation will be held on May 20, 2024 from 10:00 A.M. until time of service at the funeral home. Stanley Welch passed away on May 10,

Author: Eli Gentry