Obituaries

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Coy Wesley English Oct. 25, 1958-Sept. 15, 2018

BENSON, LA – Funeral services honoring the life of Coy Wesley English, 59, was held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 19, 2018, at Rose-Neath’s Chapel in Mansfield, LA with Rev. Delman Rogers officiating. Burial followed at Union Springs Cemetery in Converse, LA. Visitation was held at Rose-Neath’s Mansfield Funeral Home on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wesley was born October 25, 1958, in Mansfield, LA to Vernon and Ella Leona English and entered into rest on September 15, 2018. He was a loving brother, uncle and friend. He worked for the Mansfield Fire Department for 19 years and volunteered at many other fire stations. Preceding Wesley in death were his parents; maternal grandparents, Thomas and Ella Estes; paternal grandparents, Elton and Sudie English; and maternal great grandparents, William and Buna Hatcher.

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LTC Lucie Sherman Petty Nov. 18, 1939-Sept. 16, 2018

Shreveport, LA – Funeral services honoring the life of Lucie Sherman Petty, 78, was held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 20, 2018, at Christ Memorial Episcopal Church in Mansfield, LA with Bishop Charles Jenkins officiating. Burial was followed at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Keithville, LA. The family received friends at Rose-Neath Mansfield Funeral Home on Wednesday, September 19, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Lucie was born November 18, 1939, in Mansfield, LA to Frank and Emma Elam Petty, Sr. and entered into rest on September 16, 2018, in Shreveport, LA. Preceding Lucie in death were her parents, sister Charlotte Conradi, and brother Frank Albert Petty, Jr. She is the fifth generation to be born in Mansfield, where her family has lived since 1850. Her great grandfather on the maternal side was the Hon. J.B. Elam, the first Mayor of Mansfield, Speaker of the Confederate House and Congressman from the 4th Congressional District.

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Did You Know

By: Raymond Powell

Most DeSoto Parish residents should they ever hear of Wallace Lake would not consider it an important part of our history. Wallace is a portion of DeSoto Parish’s northern boundary with Caddo Parish. In the early part of the 1800’s the Red River was blocked by a massive log jam flooding a large part of northwest Louisiana resulting in Bayou Pierre becoming the route for water transportation for the settlement of Natchitoches to points north.

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The Business Doctor

By Dr. Raymond Youngblood Jr.

Question, is there anyone that works for you that thinks they know better than you as what to do in YOUR place of business? They have lots of ideas.

They present them none stop. They say things like, “We have to find a new way to do this.” “I have a better way to do it.” “If I had my business, I would do this, and I would do that…” They can rally other staffers against your concepts and policies. They hold sidebar conversations that taint the fabric of your business. They are full of what if’s and if this and if that. We country folks got a saying, “If ‘IF’ was a fifth of liquor we would all be drunk.”

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