Livingston County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Salley, Mildred Rebecca McDonald  August 5, 2010
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The Livingston Parish News - 12 Aug 2010
Mildred Rebecca McDonald Salley, 93, went to be with her Lord on Thursday, 
Aug. 5, 2010, when her Lord said, “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou 
hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. 
Enter thou into the joy of the Lord.” Matthew 25:21. She was born at home 
Sept. 24, 1916, at Twin Oaks Plantation in Eros. She was a faithful wife, 
loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother and 
friend to all. Proverbs 31:10-31 describes her attributes. She served her Lord 
in various ways at Ridge Avenue Baptist Church in West Monroe and then as a 
Christian volunteer teaching English to international students, from Tulane 
University, at First Baptist Church in New Orleans and later becoming a member 
of First Baptist Church in Kenner. Upon moving to Denham Springs three years 
ago, she joined Istrouma Baptist Church. She was an Eastern Star and belonged 
to the Perseverance Chapter No. 40 and was a member of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, Spirit of 76 Chapter in New Orleans. She was a member of 
the New Orleans Art Guild Association and her medium was oils. She especially 
enjoyed painting landscapes, plantation homes and rural scenes from her 
childhood memories. On May 6, 1935, Mildred and Stanford Salley were married. 
They resided in West Monroe until moving to New Orleans in 1951. 

Visitation was at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., 
New Orleans, on Saturday until funeral service, conducted by Dr. Joe McKeever, 
pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Kenner. Burial was in Lake Lawn 
Cemetery. 

Survivors are her two daughters and a son-in-law, and reared as her own, 
Stanford’s three daughters and son-in-law, daughter-in-law, 16 grandchildren; 
33 great-grandchildren; and 32 great-great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, William Stanford Salley; 
son, Donald Stanford Salley; parents, Henry Sherrand McDonald and Annie Esther 
Blackwell McDonald; siblings, Paris Ratliff, Brawner, Harry, James and Happy 
McDonald; grandson, Johnny Gale Kilgore; granddaughter, Kimberly Wilson; and 
sons-in-law, Joel Moore and Denver Patrick. 

The family wishes to thank the employees of St. Joseph Hospice. Thanks also to 
the helpful hands at White Road Serenity Home in Denham Springs for their 
comfort and loving care of our Mother and the family members.

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