Obituary of IRIS KEEN VOLENTINE, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  

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Date:  December 29, 1999, Wednesday

Headline:  Area Deaths, Iris Keen Volentine

Iris Keen Volentine, 88, of Urania, died Tuesday, December 21, 1999, at the 
LaSalle Nursing Home in Jena.  She was born in Kelly on January 3, 1911, to 
the union of Hardy and Georgia McDaniel Keen.

She was a homemaker and an insurance agent for Riser Funeral Home for many 
years.  She had been a resident of Urania for the past 60 years and was a 
member of the Olla Assembly of God Church.

Services were held at 10 a.m., Thursday, December 23, from the chapel of 
Riser Funeral Home in Olla with the Revs. Eddie Thompson and Carolyn 
Volentine officiating.

Interment followed in Welcome Home Cemetery near Grayson under direction of 
Riser Funeral Home of Olla.

Survivors include her daughter, LaRaye V. Bourgeois of West Monroe; her son, 
Bernard Volentine of Jena; her sister, Mildred Jones of Dallas, Texas; her 
half-sister, Elouise Renfrow of Shreveport; six grandchildren, 12 
great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were her great-grandsons:  Kenneth Volentine, Michael Volentine, 
Bryan Volentine, John Volentine, David Brooks and Sherman Brooks.

Honorary pallbearers were Freddie Penniger and Chad Bourgeouis.