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Submitted: 4/2/12 • Approved: 4/13/13 • Last Updated: 4/16/13 • R670558-G670557-S3
Leroy
May 15, 1937 - August 10, 1999
Barbara
February 8, 1941 - November 28, 2001
Married February 2, 1959
Obituary - Barbara Jo Cortez, 60, of Lake Village, died Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at the Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village. Born February 8, 1941, in Bastrop, Louisiana, the daughter of the late Tomie Cook and Vivian Stanley Cook, she was a homemaker and member of First Free Will Baptist Church. She is also preceded in death by her husband, Leroy Cortez; and two brothers, Willie and Lee Cook.
Survivors are two sons, Leroy Cortez and wife Karen of Monticello and Michael Cortez and wife Linda of Lake Village; 5 daughters, Elizabeth Morgan and husband Paul, Tina Naquin and Telisha Morgan, all of Lake Village, Kelly Morgan and husband Ronald of Montrose, and Shelly Prestridge and husband Bill of Coleen, TX; six brothers, Edwin Lee Cook and Michael Cook of Collingston, LA, Tommy Ray Cook of Greeley, CO, Donald Cook of Ashdown, Tommy Williams Cook of Lincoln, AL, and Roger Cook of Rayville, LA; four sisters, Phyllis Moore of Epps, LA, Connie Wiggins of Meridian, MS, Deborah Diel of Bastrop, LA and Trishe Bradshaw of Ashdown; 24 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Sunday, December 2, in the Bishop Funeral Home in Lake Village chapel with Rev. Robert Davis officiating. Burial followed in Holy Innocents Cemetery.
Contributed on 4/2/12 by deltabelle55
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