King's Funeral Home Obituaries
Saturday, June 10, 2017N Wayne Phillips died Wednesday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Gill First National Funeral Home.Jessie Rogers, 92Jessie Mae Rogers died Saturday. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at King's Funeral Home, Ruston. Visitation is 1 p.m. Friday at King's Funeral Home, Ruston. Burial will be at New Hebron Cemetery, Ruston.Patricia Stewart, 54Patricia Stewart of Monroe, homemaker, died Friday. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Union Hill Baptist Church, Monroe. Visitation is 1-6 p.m. Friday at Smith Funeral Home, Monroe. Burial will be in the Richwood Memorial Gardens under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.Gene Wilson, 81DOWNSVILLE Gene L. Wilson, a rural News Star carrier for the Downsville Community, died Tuesday. Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Holmesville Baptist Church near Downsville. Visitation is 1-2 p.m. Thursday at the church under the direction of Farrar Funeral Home of Farmerville.Previously acknowledgedCarter, Ernest: 10 a.m. Thursday, Cox Funeral Home of Delhi.Coston, Brize: 10 a.m. Thursday, Brown-Holley Funeral Home, Rayville.Glasper, Sammie: 11 a.m. Friday, Winnsboro Second Baptist Church, Winnsboro.Herrington, James: 1 p.m. Friday, Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel, Rayville.Johnson, Joseph: 11 a.m. Saturday, Cathedral of Love and Faith, Winnsboro.Jones, Frank: 11 a.m. Monday, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Delhi.Loyd, Frederick: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lane Chapel Baptist Church, Downsville.Pace, Gerald: Noon Saturday, Midway Church Cemetery north of Delhi.Pailette, Carolyn: Noon Thursday, First United Methodist Church, Winnsboro.Wade, Annette: 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Beulah Baptist Church, Farmerville.Funeral homes should submit death notices information by 4 p.m. Email: deathnotices@ thenewsstar.com.Read or Share this story: http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2017/05/25/deaths-may-26/347381001/...
Monday, February 20, 2017Earnie Miles, a local television pioneer who became the face of gospel music in northeastern Louisiana, died Wednesday. He was 89.Miles' contributions created a lengthy list of achievements while breaking down barriers. He was a salesman, an educator in a segregated school system with second-hand books, a photographer and documentarian for Grambling State University. He would go on to become the first African-American news reporter and TV host for KNOE-TV for more than 35 years until retiring after a stroke left him unable to speak."We a...
