Obituaries:  Versie Rea Barnhill Booker, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       B-260
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 11, 2002
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Versie Rea Barnhill Booker

  Services for Versie Rea Barnhill Booker, 81, of Marthaville,
will be held Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, at 3 p.m., in
Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home at Natchitoches. The Revs. Ray
Dyess, and Glen Howard will officiate. Burial will be in Beulah
Cemetery at Marthaville.

  Mrs. Booker died Sunday, Sept. 8, in Natchitoches Parish
Hospital. She was a native and lifelong resident of Marthaville.
She was a homemaker and member of Crossroads Baptist Church at
Marthaville.

  Mrs. Booker was preceded in death by her first husband, Adrain
Barnhill; two grandchildren, Phyliss Allbritton, and Randy Floyd;
one great grandson, Justin Allbritton; her parents, L. N., and
Maggie Sanders; and one brother, C. J. Sanders.

  Survivors include her husband, Houston Marvin Booker of
Marthaville; two daughters, Barbara Floyd of Robeline, and Brenda
Baxter of Marthaville; two sons, Richard W. Barnhill of Doyline,
and Wayne Booker of Frankfort, Ohio.

  She is also survived by one sister, Ann Dixon of Bossier City;
three brothers, Cecil Sanders of Marthaville, Huey Sanders of
Alabama, and Ronald Sanders of Tucson, Ariz.; 11 grandchildren,
Diana Laroux, Frances Walker, Patty Floyd, Robert Barnhill, Jena
Lauw, Ana Ebarb, Chrystal Lauw, Lawanna Booker, Derell Booker,
Shelby Booker, and Casey Booker; 14 great grandchildren; and one
great-great grandson.

  Pallbearers will be Wayne Booker, Daniel Laroux, Robert Baxter,
James Walker, Nathan Allbritton, and Kenny Parks.

  Blanchard-St. Denis, Natchitoches, La.