Obituary of Peggy McCrary Buie of Richland Parish, LA
as published in  Monroe The News Star, January 25,2006
Submitted by Dot Golliher,January 2006




**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************
 
 

Mrs. Peggy McCrary Buie


Services for Mrs. Peggy McCrary Buie, 83, of Rayville will be 
1:00 PM, Thursday, January 26, 2006 at Rayville Presbyterian 
Church with Rev. John Albright officiating. Interment to follow 
in Rayville Masonic Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn 
Funeral Home Rayville, LA. 

Mrs. Buie was born on January 30, 1922, in Birmingham, AL, and 
passed away on January 24, 2006 after a brief illness at Richardson 
Medical Center in Rayville, LA. 

She attended Byrd High School in Shreveport, LA, and was a graduate 
of Neville High School in Monroe, LA, where she was proud to be a 
Neville High School Cheerleader. As a member of Rayville Presbyterian 
Church, she served as an elder. Also, she attended the "Something More" 
Sunday school class and Mattie Haley Circle at Rayville United Methodist 
Church. After working at Hebert's and Albert's Men's Wear for forty-two 
years, she retired in August 2005. 

She was known for her quick wit, graciousness, and love for people. 

On September 28, 1941, she and Henry Allen Buie, Jr. were married. 
They had one daughter, Paula Buie Cumpton. She was preceded in death 
by her parents Ridgley Alexander McCrary and Pauline Fancher McCrary, 
and her husband Henry Allen Buie, Jr. 

She is survived by her daughter Paula Buie Cumpton and husband Donald 
Roy Cumpton, of Rayville; three grandchildren, Ashley Cumpton 
Thom and husband James Alexander Thom V of Baton Rouge, Buie Robinson 
Cumpton and wife Lindsey Dixon Cumpton, of Rayville, Crary Linton Cumpton 
of Washington, D. C.; two great granddaughters; Lillia Wynn Cumpton and 
Mary Scott Thom. 

Pallbearers will be Jerry W. Hollis, James L. Whitman, Jr., Terry A. Copeland, 
William R. Coenen, Jr., Donnie C. Foster, James L. McConathy, Jr., Bobby L. 
Cumpton, Charles R. Chaney. 

Honorary pallbearers will be Theo J. Coenen, III, and John C. Purvis, Sr. 

Visitation will be from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM Wednesday at Rayville 
Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rayville 
Presbyterian Church.