Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Friday, June 8, 2007

Kathryn Coreen Taunton

Funeral services for Mrs. Kathryn Coreen Taunton will be held June 9, 2007 at 3 p.m. at Evangeline Baptist Church in Wildsville. Interment will be at the Taunton/Coleman Cemetery in Manifest under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with Reverends Dennis Baker and James Foster officiating.

Mrs. Taunton, 72, passed away Wednesday June 6, 2007 at Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria. She was a life-long homemaker.

She is survived by one son Willie Earl Taunton and his wife Mary Lee of Jena; two sisters, Sadie M. Smith, Jonesville and Margaret Lum of Magnolia, Texas; five grandsons, Mark Taunton, Matthew Taunton, and Timothy Taunton of Jena, Joe Taunton and John Taunton of Jonesville; three great grandsons, Cody W. Stephens of Jena, Cameron P. Taunton and Cameron E. Taunton both of Jonesville and ``special niece'' Judy Craigo of Alexandria; numerous nieces, nephews, friends, other relatives.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Joe Taunton; one son, Sammy Joe Taunton; her parents Eugene and Ola Mae Harper and two brothers Bill and Aubrey Harper.

Pallbearers are Tommy McClure, Paul McClure, Woody Smith, Byron Smith, Rick Asken and Tony Harper.

Honorary pallbearers are Jim Miller, ``Little'' Sam Shefeyk, Brad Bates, and Russell Smith.