Obituary:  Betty James Roark, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: January 2005



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Obituary of Betty James Roark


Services for Betty James Roark, age 65 of West Monroe will be held 
at 2 p.m., Thursday, December 9, 2004 from the chapel of Riser Funeral 
Home in Columbia with Rev. Mark Fenn officiating.  Interment will 
follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson.

Mrs. Roark was born on May 17, 1939 in Columbia to the union of Walter 
and Mildred Faulks James and died Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at the 
Cornerstone Hospital in West Monroe.

She was a retired schoolteacher having taught  at Raceland Junior High 
in Raceland and Caldwell Parish High School in Columbia.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband: Billy Ray Roark, 
her brothers: Jack James and Donnie James and her sister: Ann James Darden.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law Wendy Carlynn & Dwight Gilley 
of Baton Rouge, Her son and daughter-in-law Joseph Hammons & Lori Watkins 
Ware, Jr. of West Monroe, and Allison Rhea Roark of Memphis, TN, her step-
daughter: Angela Denise Green of Gautier, MS and her grandchildren: James 
Luther Gilley, Katherine Rose Gilley, Hannah Kate Ware, Mallori Fay Ware and 
Joseph Hammons Ware, III.

Pallbearers are Dino Darden, Johnny Darden, Butch Darden, Donnie James, James 
Gilley and Dwight Gilley

Honorary pallbearers  include John Dowling.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 9, 2004 from noon until time of services 
at Riser Funeral Home, 7131 Hwy 165, Columbia.

Any planned memorials may be made to the La. Baptist Children’s Home in Monroe.