Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BARBOUR, FRENCHIE LEE GOLSBY January 18, 2009
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News Star World - January 21, 2009
FRENCHIE LEE GOLSBY BARBOUR

Kilpatrick Funeral Homes

West Monroe, LA

Funeral services for Mrs. Frenchie Lee Golsby Barbour, age 84, will be 11:00 
AM, Friday, January 23, 2009, at Feazel Chapel in West Monroe. Officiating will 
be Rev. Mark Fenn and Dr. Woods Watson. Interment will follow at Kilpatrick's 
Serenity Gardens, 8729 Cypress Street in West Monroe, LA.

Frenchie Lee Golsby Barbour was a great educator, a wife, a mother, and a 
volunteer. She was born in Dubach, LA, graduated from Crowville High School, 
received a BA of E from Louisiana Baptist College, and 45 plus Master's Degree 
in Education from Marshall University in Huntington, WV.

After marriage to Larry C. Barbour, she moved to West Virginia. She endured the 
pains of separation as her husband went to two wars: WWII and the Korean 
Conflict. Kenneth and Jill, her two children, were the pride of her life. 
Activites in the Baptist Temple in Charleston, West Virginia as a deaconess, a 
choir member, and Sunday school teacher gave her great joy. She retired from 
Kanawha County School System in West Virginia with 36 years of elementary 
school education to her credit 8 as a teacher and 28 years as a principal.

Frenchie loved to read, sing, cook, attend opera, and pet her animals. She was 
a member of several educational organizations: A.C.E.; Phi Delta Kappa; Alpha 
Delta Kappa from which she received the 50 year Golden Sister Award; American 
Association of University Women which named three scholarships after her.

After retirement, she moved to West Monroe, LA in 1984 to be near her 
relatives. She continued to be very active in her retirement years, giving of 
herself to her community. She became an active member of the First Baptist 
Church of West Monroe, singing in the choir and participating in Sunday school. 
Her activities included a Lifetime Member of the Glenwood Auxiliary from which 
she was a past president, a member of Mon Amie Newcomers Club serving as 
president and treasurer 3 times, a member of the Monroe Symphony League, a 
member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Gideons, a member of the Ministry of 
Inspirational Therapy, and a member of the Ouachita Parish Women's Republican 
Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents Leslie E. and Ruby Golsby; brother 
Leslie E. Golsby, Jr., husband Larry C. Barbour; and son Kenneth Lee Barbour.

Survivors include her daughter Jill Ruby Barbour of Macon, GA; sisters Beverly 
Thomas and Gloria Jones and husband, Joel of West Monroe, LA; brother-in-laws 
Richard Newberg of Philadelphia, PA and Dr. Alfred Walker and wife, Janet of 
Baltimore, MD.

Memorials may be made to the Monroe Symphony League, the Gideons International, 
or the Ministry of Inspirational Therapy.

Pallbearers will be from the Gideons International of Monroe.

Visitation will be 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM, Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 
Kilpatrick Funeral Home of West Monroe.

During the services for Mrs. Barbour, a celebration of life for her son, 
Kenneth Lee Barbour, age 63, will also take place. Kenneth was born on March 
26, 1945 in Huntington, West Virginia and passed away on January 3, 2009 in 
Macon, Georgia.

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