Obituaries:  Michael Ray Veuleman, Sabine Parish       V-455
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 20, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Michael Ray Veuleman

  Michael Ray Veuleman departed from his world, and joined his
father, Ray D. Veuleman, and one sister, Cynthia Kay Veuleman in
Heaven, on the morning of Sunday, March 16, 1986. Mike had lived
all of his 32 years in Pleasant Hill, La.

  As a resident of Pleasant Hill, Mike was a good neighbor and
citizen, serving four years with the Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire
Department, where he was an assistant fire chief. Mike had
battled many fires, helping protect the area he loved. He was
killed in route to a house fire of a close family friend.

  Mike was a Christian, and devoted member of the First Baptist
Church of Pleasant Hill, where he served in many capacities,
including membership on the usher committee, the building and
grounds committee, and as assistant youth Sunday School teacher.
He was also a member of the Young Adult Sunday School Class.

  He was a 1971 graduate of Pleasant Hill High School, and had
been a welder-fitter, at Nabor's Trailer Plant in Mansfield, for
the past fifteen years.

  Mike will be missed by many friends and neighbors. His surviving
family include his mother, Mickey B. Veuleman of Pleasant Hill;
two brothers, James R. Veuleman, and Jeff Veuleman of Pleasant
Hill; one sister, Mary V. Jennings of Eunice, La.; his
grandmother, Mrs. E. P. Brown of Shreveport, La.; one niece, Anna
Raye Jennings of Eunice; and many aunts, Uncles, and cousins.

  Pallbearers were Jerry Barnes, Bobby Dilliard, Harold Dilliard,
John Neal, Alfred Stennett, and Henry Touchton.

  Honorary pallbearers were the employees of Nabor's Trailers, and
members of the Area Volunteer Fire Departments.

  Services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, March 17, at the First
Baptist Church of Pleasant Hill, with Brother Vernon Stephenson,
and Brother Gayle Dean officiating. Burial was at Springridge
Cemetery near Pleasant Hill.

  Mike will be greatly missed by all.