Obituary of Eloise Parker Stephens resident of Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Monroe News Star on October 12, 2004
Submitted  for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 10/12/2004



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 Eloise Parker Stephens
 

Services for Eloise Parker Stephens, age 82, of Rayville, LA 
will be 2:00 PM, Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at Brown-Holley 
Funeral Chapel, Rayville with Rev. James Kitchens officiating. 
Interment will follow in Greer Cemetery, Rayville under direction 
of Brown-Holley Funeral Home-Rayville.
Mrs. Stephens was born on November 13, 1921 and passed away on 
Sunday, October 10, 2004. She was a member of the Zebedee Baptist 
Church. Mama loved to garden, she could grow almost anything. She w
as preceded in death by her husband, Joseph "Earl" Stephens Jr., Sr.;
 parents, Hubert and Gracie Parker; sons, Jesse and David Stephens; 
daughter, Karen Stephens.

Survivors include: daughters, Earline Love and husband, Bennie of 
Rayville and Rhonda Guimbellot and husband, Larry of Start; sons, 
Joseph Earl "Joey" Stephens and wife, Donna of Rayville and James 
Harold "Jimmie" Stephens of Rayville; sisters, Jewel Townsend of 
Rayville, Voncil Duncan of Hebert, LA and Willa Townsend of Hebert, 
LA; fourteen grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be James Henry Townsend, Michael Townsend, Robert 
Duncan, Benny Townsend, George Townsend and Bobby Ray Parker.
Honorary pallbearers will be her nephews.