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Bessie M. Brown Stephens
(March 22, 1932 - April 25, 2012)

Funeral services for Bessie M. Brown Stephens, 80, of Leesville, Louisiana will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 28, 2012, at Labby Memorial Funeral Home with Rev. Kenneth Baggs officiating. Burial will follow in the Prewitt's Chapel Cemetery in Hornbeck, under the direction of Labby Memorial Funeral Home of Leesville.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, April 27th, at the funeral home.

Bessie, or Grannie Bessie as she was fondly known, was the daughter of Walter (Bud) Brown and Aletha Savell Brown Dew of Hornbeck LA. She was born on March 22, 1932, in Hornbeck, LA. She went to heaven on Wednesday, April 25, 2012.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father, her two sons, Walter Edward (Butch) & Jerry Bridges, and her brother, Walter Jackson (Jr) Brown. Grannie Bessie loved fishing, and being around her family and friends. She loved helping the ``old'' people of Vernon Parish, but would never consider herself as one of them.

She is survived by her daughters; Roseanna & husband Luis Cardenas of Hornbeck, LA, Dixie Birdsong Fontenot of Moss Bluff, LA and Dottie Lucius Rose of Melbourne, FL: 7 grandchildren, Larry Hair of Ball, LA, Sherry Bailey of Ft. Worth, TX, Deryck Fontenot of DeRidder, LA, Ricky Rose of Melbourne, FL, Jennifer Archer of Kalispell, MT, Melinda Owens & Amanda Odom of Hornbeck, LA; 15 great-grandchildren, 2 sisters, Laverne Lam of Hornbeck, LA, Mary Lenore Gregory of Moss Point, MS and a host of nieces & nephews.