Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....LEVASSEUR, EDITH GODFREY  September 27, 2015
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News Star World - October 01, 2015
EDITH GODFREY LEVASSEUR

Funeral services for Edith Godfrey LeVasseur, 97 of Monroe and formerly of 
Columbia will be held 11:00 am Saturday, October 3, 2015 from the sanctuary of 
First United Methodist Church in Columbia with Rev. J. Roddy Taylor 
officiating. Interment will follow in the Columbia Hill Cemetery under 
direction of Riser Funeral Home of Columbia. Visitation will be at the church 
on Saturday from 10:00 am until time of service. Mrs. LeVasseur was born at 
Bastrop,Louisiana on December 20, 1917 and passed away peacefully at her 
residence in Monroe on Sunday September 27, 2015. She was preceded in death by 
her parents William Poland Stotts and Lottie Amelia Hendrick Stotts, her two 
husbands: Cicero Godfrey and Kellie LeVasseur, and her daughter Kay Godfrey 
Ellender. She along with Mr. Godfrey owned and operated Godfrey's Dry Goods in 
downtown Columbia for many years. She served on the State Library Board, the 
Louisiana State Archives Commission, and the Caldwell Parish Library board for 
some twenty years. She was also on the Caldwell Parish Board of Mental Health 
and served with ARC in Pensacola, Florida. She was a member of the First United 
Methodist Church in Columbia. Edith was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and 
great-grandmother. She will be missed greatly by all who knew her.

Left to cherish her memory is her daughter: Anne Godfrey Erskine and husband 
David G. Erskine of Monroe; three grandchildren: Willard A. Ellender, III 
(Sandy) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, George Randolph Erskine(Susan) of Aliso Viejo, 
CA, and David Graves Erskine (Sherri) of Georgetown, Texas ; and seven great-
grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers will be Hugh Cameron Murray, John Carroll, Clay Bennett, 
Pete Adams, Leslie LaCroix, William J. Hardy and John Holliday. Honorary 
pallbearers include Johnny James and Dr. E.D. Coates.

In lieu of flowers any planned memorials may be made to any library or the 
Columbia Hill Cemetery, P.O. Box 1301, Columbia, Louisiana 71418.

The family sends special thanks to Dr. Bob Raulerson and his staff for their 
compassionate care and concern. They gratfully acknowledge and appreciate the 
loving care, attention, and devotion provided by two special people, Marjorie 
Ausberry and Hattie Glenn.

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