Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....PLAISANCE, ELNITA SHELLEY January 12, 2014
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ELNITA SHELLEY PLAISANCE

Elnita Shelley Plaisance went to her heavenly reward on January 12, 2015, in 
Monroe, Louisiana, at her home after a short illness.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, January 16, 2015, at 
Jesus the Good Shepherd Catholic Church with burial at Mulhearn Memorial 
Gardens Cemetery, Monroe, Louisiana. Family visitation will be held from 
6:00 until 8:30 PM, Thursday, January 15, 2015, in the Chapel of Mulhearn 
Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe, Louisiana. Interment will follow at 
Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home 
of Monroe, Louisiana.

She was born on December 2, 1919, in Nichols, South Carolina to the union of 
James Austin Shelley and Johnnie Harley Mishoe. She attended and graduated 
from the Mullins Hospital School of Nursing in Mullins, South Carolina, and 
worked at various hospitals in South Carolina before meeting her husband, 
James R. "J.R. - Jimmy" Plaisance in North Carolina where he was serving in 
the Army. After discharge they moved to Monroe, Louisiana. She worked in the 
Labor and Delivery Department at both E. A. Conway Hospital and St. Francis 
Medical Center before leaving to take the position of Director of Nursing at 
St. Joseph's Home for Aged and Infirm (a position she held for 25 years) 
before retiring.

Mrs. Plaisance was predeceased by her husband, James Roy "J.R. - Jimmy" 
Plaisance; parents, James Austin Shelley and Johnnie Harley Mishoe Shelley 
Small; her brothers, Pelton Shelley, Lacy Woodrow Shelley, James C. Shelley, 
Sr., Elson Shelley, Jerry Austin Shelley and Jack Laverne Shelley; her 
sisters, Mollie Shelley, Zetha Shelley Floyd Collins, Janice Shelley Johnson 
Morton, Marie Shelley Graham, Margaret Florence Dohmann and Betty Jean 
Shelley.

Mrs. Plaisance is survived by her sons, Chris Plaisance of Monroe, 
Louisiana, and James R. "Ron" Plaisance of Louisiana, and daughter, Gaye 
Plaisance of Summerville, South Carolina; grandson, James Landry Plaisance 
(Jennifer) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; granddaughters, Lisa Anne Plaisance 
Luther (Gene) and Rondi Michelle Plaisance Jacob (Brett) of Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana, Myranda Pickering Foether (James) and Rianna Pickering of 
Summerville, South Carolina; great grandsons, John Austin Luther, Britton 
Cole Jacob, Ryan Plaisance of Baton Rouge and James Christian Foether and 
Alexander Foether of Summerville, South Carolina; great granddaughters, 
Ashlanne Luther, Brantley Grace Luther, Katherine Shelley Plaisance and 
Laney Plaisance of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; former daughter in law, Anne 
Plaisance of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and former son in law, Tom Hodge of 
Utah; special family friends, Melba Bradford and Joyce Howell and many 
nephews and nieces.

Pallbearers will be grandsons and grandsons in law, Lane Plaisance, John 
Austin Luther, Gene Luther, Brett Jacob; nephews, Fred Dohmann, Larry 
Elliott, Billy DeLee and close friend, Richard Bradford.

Online Registry/Condolences

www.mulhearnfuneralhome.com

Mulhearn Funeral Home

Sterlington Road

Monroe, Louisiana 

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