A family graveside service for Carolyn Reid Husted Shelton, 93, of Ponchatoula, formerly of Monroe, LA will be held at 10 am, Saturday, September 17, 2016 at Wetmore Cemetery, Ponchatoula, with Dr. David Cranford of First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula officiating under the direction of Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, Hammond, LA. Mrs. Shelton died September 15, 2016, at...

Voncil Hudson McLaughlin , 96 years old of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, passed away  Sunday, September 11, 2016, in Corpus Christi, TX..

She was born on Saturday, October 18, 1919, in Troy, AL. Surviving are three daughters; Clara Smith (Will), Doris Harrison (Paul) and Martha Sanchez (Terran); ten grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband,...

Cecil Lamar “Shot” Watkins, 69, passed away at his home in Springfield, Louisiana on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 after a battle with cancer.

Shot was born October 15, 1946 in Ringgold, Mississippi. Shot served his country in the Navy during the Vietnam War. While in the Navy, he learned to work with hydraulics. After the war, Shot became an innovator...

Gerald B. "Jerry" Verburg passed away on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, at his residence in Hammond, Louisiana, following a long battle with cancer, at the age of 84.  He was born on Wednesday, December 9, 1931, and was a native of Hammond.  He lived most of his adult life in Metairie, LA and later, in Picayune, MS, where he lived...

Rita A. Sage, 90 of Hammond, Louisiana, passed away on Monday, September 12, 2016, in Hammond. A Visitation will be on Thursday, September 15, 2016 from 9:00am – 11:00am at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home in Hammond. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visitation at 11:00am in the funeral home chapel. Entombment at Rose Memorial Park Cemetery in Hammond

“Give sorrow words.

The grief that does not speak

Whisp’rs the o’er fraught heart

And bids it break.”

Augustine Palmintier Lobue, 97 years old of Hammond, Louisiana, went to her heavenly reward Sunday, September 11, 2016 at her residence.

She was born May 14, 1919 in Hammond, daughter of the late Joseph Vincent Palmintier and Giovanna Signorelli Palmintier.  She married Joseph Vincent Lobue on November...

Ms. Lena Accardo Graziano, passed away on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, in Hammond, Louisiana, at the age of 83. She was born on October, 13, 1932 in Tickfaw, LA.

Lena is survived by her four daughters, Margaret Louque (Gary), Pauline Graziano, Judy Graci (Charles), and Toni Braquet (L.J.); grandchildren, Chad Graci, Raquel Nastasi (Jeff), Christina Javanmardi (Eliot), Louis Braquet, III., and...

Joseph Anthony Lence, 37 years old of Tickfaw, Louisiana, passed away Tuesday, September 6, 2016, at Post Acute Specialty of Hammond. Many will remember him as Joe the pizza guy. Joseph was born on Wednesday, February 21, 1979, in Souix City,Iowa, son of the late James Russell Lence and Carmella Terri Orlando Lence. Surviving are mother, Carmella Terri Orlando Lence, aunts, Nina Calderone, Cathy Calderone, Ann Lacara, and Patricia...