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Loyce Barrett Mitchell
``For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.''
The family of Loyce ``Mimi'' Mitchell regretfully announces her death in the early morning hours of Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, at her home in Baton Rouge.
Our beautiful mother was born in Atlanta, Louisiana, on Oct. 10, 1927, to John Barrett and Ollie Camp, who were of Winnfield. She met a young man in South Baton Rouge, Vincent Charles Mitchell (Micheli), and married him after he returned home following the end of World War II, on Jan. 26, 1946. Loyce and ``Vince'' were married 53 years until his death in 1999.
Loyce spent 23 years of her young life as an ``army wife'' traveling with Vince to Texas, Iowa, Colorado, Louisiana and West Germany. During those years she spent many anxious moments waiting for him to return from South Korea and other bases and training facilities, where families were not allowed to travel. When Vince retired in 1966, he moved his family from West Germany back to their home state of Louisiana to be with their families.
Loyce was a beautiful and intelligent woman, a dedicated wife, a devoted daughter to her parents, a loving mother to her five children, a devoted grandmother and a woman of principle, honor and courage. She represented all that is good in this life through her actions, her faith in God and her overwhelming sense of love and duty to all whom she loved.
Her family traces their ancestry back to the Revolutionary War of 1776 and the Civil War beginning in 1861. Her father's family (Barrett) was Irish, and her Mother's family was English (Cockerham). Many of her relatives (dating to the early 1800s and related to her grandfather, the Camp family) are buried on family farmland sold to the federal government and now existing as part of a national park and wildlife refuge near Winnfield.
A private family service was held on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m., at The Chapel of the Mausoleum, Resthaven Cemetery, Baton Rouge, where her beloved ``Vince and Bobby'' rest in peace.
Loyce is survived by four children, Sandy Mitchell Walsh, Debbi Mitchell McMullan, Patricia ``Pat'' Mitchell and Ricky ``Rick'' Mitchell; two grandsons, Nathan Hatton Walsh and his wife, Meggie Walsh, of San Francisco, and Matthew "Matt" Johnson Mitchell, a student at NYIT (Old Westbury) on Long Island, New York; two sons-in-law, Dr. Frederick McMullan and Thomas Hatton Walsh; a daughter-in-law, Janel Mitchell Monson; childhood friend and first cousin, Sybol Camp Tabor; sisters-in-law, Beatrice Mitchell, Tina Mitchell Perilloux and Margorie Mitchell; nieces, Barbara Montealegre, Diane Andrews and Sharon Andrews; and nephews, John Andrews, Mark Andrews and O'Neal Andrews. She is also survived by the families of her deceased brothers-in-law, Jim Mitchell, Sam Mitchell, Steve Mitchell, Joe Mitchell, Roy Mitchell and Anthony Mitchell; and the families of her deceased sisters-in-law, Tina Mitchell Sabella and Congetta Mitchell Reasoner.
Her husband, Vince Mitchell, and their son, Bobby Mitchell, preceded Loyce in death. The greatest sorrow of Loyce's life was the death of her son, ``Bobby'' in 1991. Her grief never lessened, nor was her heart comforted. John and Ollie Barrett, her parents; a sister, Ida Mae Andrews; a brother, Alvin Barrett; her mother-in-law, Rosa Pugliesi (Politz) Mitchell (Micheli) and her father-in-law, Giachino Mitchell (Micheli), also preceded her in death.
The family respectfully acknowledges the expert care and compassion provided by Dr. Joel Silverberg, Dr. Peter Luscy, Dr. Butler Fuller, Dr. Barry Rills, Dr. Kenneth Blue, Dr. Niels Linschoten and the late Dr. Gordon, one of the founding members of the Baton Rouge Clinic. The family thanks Amedisys of Baton Rouge who sustained and nurtured our Mother during her life, and Life Source Hospice, represented by Dale Mitchell. The family also thanks the staff of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge General Medical Center-Bluebonnet, Rabenhorst Funeral Home and Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Our hearts remember. ``The weary sun hath made a golden set.''
Date of death:
October 29, 2009