Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Ruby L. Corbitt Buckelew
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruby L. Corbitt Buckelew will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 19, 2005 in Hebron Baptist Church, Dry Prong with the Rev. Richard DeBusk and the Rev. Jacob Crawford officiating. Burial will be in Hebron Cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home, Pineville.
Mrs. Buckelew, 87, of Dry Prong, died Friday, June 17, 2005 at Rapides Regional Medical Center.
Mrs. Buckelew was a member of Hebron Baptist Church since 1970.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Riley Luther and Georgia Newton Corbitt; her sisters, Velta Faircloth Bohannon, Irene Johnson, and Evelyn Thames; and her brother, Carlos Corbitt.
Survivors include her husband, Robert Lee Buckelew of Dry Prong; her sons, Glen Buckelew and wife Norma of Jena and Larry Buckelew and wife Dianne of Alvin, Texas; her daughter, Lorraine Buckelew Doughty and husband Luther Ray of Frankston, Texas; her sisters, Myrtis C. Forte and Oneida C. Mitchell, both of Dry Prong; seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 12090 S. Harrell's Ferry Road, Ste. B, Baton Rouge, La. 70816.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. Saturday, June 18, 2005 at Hixson Brothers, Pineville and from 1 p.m. until time of service Sunday at the church.
To extend online condolences to the Buckelew family, please visit us at www.hixsonbrothers.com.
Saturday, June 18, 2005