Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....COLVIN, ROWENA January 18, 2009
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News Star World - January 24, 2009
ROWENA COLVIN
Riser Funeral Home

Olla, LA

Services for Mrs. Bernice Rowena Self Colvin, age 95 of Olla, will be 2:00 PM 
Sunday, January 25, 2009 from the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Olla with 
Pastor Jack Fry officiating. Interment will follow at Olla Cemetery in Olla.

Visitation will be Saturday evening from to 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM and again 
Sunday from 10:00 AM until time of service.

Mrs. Colvin was born on July 10, 1913 in Mounds, Oklahoma to the union of 
Samuel Clark and Florence Yates Self and departed from this life on Saturday, 
January 18, 2009 from The Lantern Center in Collegedale, TN, after a long and 
fruitful life.

Rowena was raised on a farm and after her eighth grade year she followed the 
lead of her parents in converting to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 
nearby Sapulpa. She met Jackson William Colvin at Southwestern Junior College 
Academy in Keene, TX, and shortly after graduation was married. She was a 
devoted mother to her two sons. In the early 1950's she began working as a 
librarian at the LaSalle Parish Branch Library in Olla. Through the years she 
met and assisted hundreds of high school students. Having set aside her dream 
of becoming a nurse, Rowena enthusiastically pursued courses at LSU-Alexandria 
in Library Science.

She was always concerned that her sons take advantage of education and work 
opportunities and later exhibited the same interest in her grandchildren and 
great grandchildren. She was especially proud of the distinguished service of 
her older son, Clark and great-grandson, Brandon in the US military. For a 
number of years Rowena served as treasurer for the short-lived Georgetown 
Church, later switching her membership to Westlake Seventh-day Adventist 
Church in West Monroe. Following her husband's stroke in 1979, she lovingly 
cared for him until his death in March 1992. Rowena touched many lives, but 
found her greatest joy in being surrounded by family and friends. She will be 
greatly missed by all who knew her.

Mrs. Colvin was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Jack Colvin, 
her son, Clark Elwood Colvin, and three siblings: Erma Vanerwegen, Dorothy 
Mackin and Ward Self.

Survivors include her son, Gerald Franklin Colvin and wife, Vivian Faye of 
Ooltewah, TN, daughter-in-law, Anita Louise Colvin of Benton, LA, five grand 
children, four great-grandchildren, expected first great-great-grandchild in 
March and a host of nieces, nephews and other family and friends.

Serving as pallbearers will be Clark Colvin, Jr., Steven Colvin, Wade Colvin, 
Guy Colvin, Lt. Brandon Colvin and Glenn Henderson.



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