Obituary of Edna Batson Mills, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: The News Star
Date: June 2005



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EDNA BATSON MILLS
Riser Funeral Home
Columbia, Louisiana


Services for Edna Batson Mills, age 91, of Columbia will be held 
at 2:00 PM on Friday, February 25, 2005 from the chapel of Riser 
Funeral Home in Columbia with Rev. Tommy Basco and Rev. Charles 
Lutrick officiating. Interment will follow in the Mt. Pleasant 
Cemetery west of Columbia.

Mrs. Mills was born in Cald well Parish on September 26, 1913 to 
the union of Jim and Carrie Alford Batson and died on Tuesday, 
February 22, 2005 at the Haven Nursing Center in Columbia.

She was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Willie Junior 
Mills; her son, Wallace Mills and her granddaughter, Ashley Taylor.

Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law: Willie and Donna Mills 
of Columbia, Donnie and Theresa Mills of Hebert; her daughters and 
sons-in-law, Carrie and Jodie Roberts of Columbia, Dinah and Donnie 
Caraway of Grayson, Debbie and Johnny Walters of Oak Grove; her 
daughter, Carolyn M. Caldwell of West Monroe; her sisters, Georgia 
Johnson of Grayson, Mary Lee Ray of West Monroe and Gladys Bailey of 
DeRidder; nineteen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; 
and two great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Joey Roberts, Chris Mills, Charlie Caldwell, Jerry 
Mills, Kelvin Caraway and Billy Caldwell.

Honorary Pallbearers are Beau Mills, Jeffrey Mills, Dean DeLancy, Derek 
DeLancy, John Wallace Mills, Ken Mills and Ty Mills.

Visitation will be Thursday from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM and Friday from 
9:00 AM until time of services at Riser Funeral Home, 7131 Hwy. 165, 
Columbia. 


Originally published February 24, 2005