Obituary of Lena Watson Stamper, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: August 27, 2004



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Obituary:  Lena Watson Stamper
November 30, 2003

Services for Lena Watson Stamper, age 91, of Columbia will be
held at 3 p.m., Sunday, November 30, 2003 from the First Baptist 
Church in Columbia with Rev. Don Smith officiating.  Interment 
will follow in the Cross Roads Cemetery west of Grayson.
   
Mrs. Stamper was born on January 28, 1912 in Crowville to the
union of Charles E. and Sarah Childress Watson and died Friday,
November 28, 2003 at the Riverview Care Center in Bossier City,
where she had resided the last three years.
    
She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church
in Columbia.  She was preceded in death by her husband: Andrew
Stamper, her infant daughter: Verna Mae Stamper, four brothers
and four sisters.
    
Survivors include her sons: Freeman Stamper of San Francisco,
Ca. and Leeman Stamper and his wife: Barbara of Columbia, her
daughter: Merlene Garcin and her husband: Huey of Shreveport,
her grandchildren: Tommy Garcin and his wife: Denise, Linda Bartlett 
and her husband: Kevin and Michael Stamper, and her great-
grandchildren: Kyle and Kaci Bartlett and Michael and Daniel Garcin.
    
Pallbearers will be Kevin Thompson, Kerry Lee Thompson,
Trey Roberts, Charles Caraway, Sandy Caraway and Spencer Roberts.
    
Our thanks for all the many prayers and acts of love and kindness 
shown to our  mother and our family during her illness.
   
Visitation will be Saturday from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Sunday
from 9 a.m. until l p.m. at Riser Funeral Home and from 2 p.m.
until time of services at the church.