Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, October 29, 2005

RUTH ELAINE READ

Kilpatrick Funeral Home
West Monroe, LA

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Elaine Read, 78, of West Monroe, LA will be at 2:00 PM, Saturday, October 29, 2005, at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel, West Monroe, LA. Rev. Doug Lebrun will be officiating. Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Calhoun, LA under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe.

Mrs. Read was born July 27, 1927 in West Monroe and passed away October 26, 2005 in West Monroe.

Mrs. Read was preceded in death by her husband, James H. Read of forty-three years.

Mrs. Read is survived by her children: Bob Read and wife Lonette, Carolyn Belk and husband James, Jerry Read and wife Linda, Charlotte Brown, Annie Ruth Abraham; grandchildren: Michelle Price, Toby Read, Stacie Watts, Scott Brown, David Brown, Jr., Bob Read, Jr., Nicole Douglass, Jonathan Read, Cindy Ticheli, Joey Brown, Jason Read, Rhonda Cooper, Jeff Cooper, Tammy Berry, Kelly Millien and Steven Millien; sisters: Mary Steen of Kelly, LA, Mildred Deason of West Monroe, LA, Carrie Bryan of Downsville, LA, Katherine Browder of Heflin, LA, and twenty-four great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Visitation will be from 9:00 AM until service time at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe.