TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for BATISTE, DOROTHY (REED) Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Jones Funeral Home, Inc., Houma, La. Died: Wednesday, April 25, 2017 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= BATISTE, DOROTHY (REED) October 25, 1925 ~ April 25, 2017 (age 91) ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2017/f1704.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Dorothy Reed Batiste, 91, a native of Terrebonne Parish and a resident of Gray, passed away peacefully at 7:09 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, 2017. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until funeral time at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at Eagle Wright Baptist Church located at 3590 Hwy 316 in Gray. Burial will follow in Allen Chapel AME Cemetery. She is survived by her daughters, Deloris M Jones and Barbara Richardson (Benjamin); six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charley Batiste; grandson, Evanger Bruce Jones; parents, Sylvester, Sr. and Verna Shanklin Reed; brothers, Edgar, Louis, Lloyd and Sylvester Reed, Jr., Clarence and Willis Davis; sisters, Beatrice and Mable Johnson, Alice, Lillie Belle, Bessie and Pearl Davis, Esther Reed, Gertrude Rogers, Harriot Brown, and Urcel Ingram; and son-in-law, Evanger Jones, Jr. Arrangements entrusted to Jones Funeral Home of Houma. ======================