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Submitted: 11/21/19 • Approved: 11/9/20 • Last Updated: 11/12/20 • R1282878-G1282821-S3
May 3, 1935 - April 8, 2019
*Obituary
www.chandlerfuneral.com.
Mrs. Juanita Hopkins LaPorte, age 83, a resident of the White Cliffs Community of Sevier County, passed from this life on Monday, April 8, 2019 in Texarkana, Texas.
She was the oldest of three children born to Luther and Zeddie Crosslin Hopkins on May 3, 1935 in White Cliffs. She attended school at the White Cliffs Community School and worked as a CNA. Before retirement, she worked for the Swoperidge Nursing Center in Missouri and as a private care nurse. Juanita loved the Lord, was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in White Cliffs. She enjoyed flowers, gardening, knitting, reading and sharing about the newspaper, and being retired, but most of all, she cherished the time spent with her children and grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, whom she shared many wonderful years, George E. LaPorte; two sons, Ronald Keith Booker and Douglas Lydell Booker; four daughters, Diann Hopkins, Janice Booker, Marlene Canady and Francine Canady (McGee); and two brothers, Dorris Luther Hopkins and Leodis Hopkins.
She leaves to cherish her memory, six sons, Arnold Booker, Jr., Larry Darrell Booker, Ernest Eugene Booker and Billy Odell Booker, all of Kansas City, Missouri, Bobby Oniel Booker of the White Cliffs Community, and Maverick Lamar Canady, also of Kansas City, Missouri; 30 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren; as well as, nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Juanita LaPorte will be held at 12:00 P.M., Noon, Saturday, April 13, 2019 in the Scott’s Memorial United Methodist Church, Paraloma, with Rev. Calvin Marbles officiating. Burial will follow in the Brownstown Cemetery, under the direction of Chandler Funeral Home, De Queen. The family will receive friends from 11:00 A.M., until service time, Saturday, at the church.
Contributed on 11/21/19 by MryAl8
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