Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....DEFEE, NOLA GERTRUDE WOODEN June 21, 2019
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COX FUNERAL HOME - JUN. 21, 2019
NOLA GERTRUDE WOODEN DEFEE


NOLA GERTRUDE DEFEE 
COX FUNERAL HOME 
BASTROP, LOUISIANA  

Mrs. Nola Gertrude Defee was born June 23, 1926 in Clarksville, Arkansas. She 
passed away on June 21, 2019 in Ruston, Louisiana. Gertrude was the oldest 
daughter of the late W.L. Wooden and Eula Perkins Wooden. She is preceded in 
death by eight brothers and one sister. Gertrude married Levern Defee on 
December 19, 1944 . After 69 years of marriage he preceded her in death. They 
are once again walking hand in hand together. She is survived by her son Arthur, 
his wife Karen of Georgia, granddaughter, Nicole, her husband SFC Jeremy Neece 
and their daughter Olive of Louisiana, granddaughter Amy, her husband Eddie 
Cossio and their daughters, Nola and Emma of Georgia, grandson Joshua, his wife 
Susan and their son, Joshua, Jr., and daughter Ella of Georgia; her daughter, 
Carolyn Davis of Bastrop, Louisiana, grandson John, his wife Lisa and their 
daughter, Abigail, granddaughter Michele Davis and her daughter, Destiny all of 
Louisiana, granddaughter Renee, her husband Michael McIntyre and their sons, 
Alex and Connor of Alabama; and her daughter, Beverly McDonald of Bastrop, 
Louisiana, granddaughter Cassie, her husband CW4 John Wuensche and their 
children Charlotte and Jack of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Defee is the last surviving 
Founding Member of the Greenacres Baptist Church in Bastrop, Louisiana, a past-
Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, Sunny South Chapter #12, and former 
legal secretary for the late Judge Woodrow Wilson. Funeral services honoring the 
life of Nola Gertrude Defee will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, 2019, at 
the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop with Reverend Danny Hawthorne 
officiating. Committal services and interment will follow at Memorial Park 
Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home. The family will receive 
friends on Tuesday, June 25th, beginning at 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the 
funeral home. Serving as pallbearers are Joshua Defee, John Davis, John 
Wuensche, and Bobby Wooden.

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