Obituary for Helen Ray Thacker Spillars
Funeral services for Helen Ray Thacker Spillars of Newellton, will be 2:00PM Tuesday, February 28, 2023 in the chapel of Young's Community Memorial Winnsboro with Rev. John Holdiness officiating. Interment will follow at Spillars Family Cemetery near Newellton under the direction of Young's Community Memorial. Visitation will be from 12:00pm until time of service Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Spillars was born May 20, 1936 in Franklin Parish, LA and passed from this life on February 26, 2023 in Winnsboro, LA at the age of 86.
She was a lifelong faithful member of Bethany Baptist Church of Newellton. She loved to fish, read, crochet beautiful things, and spending time with her family. She loved her family, especially her grandchildren. She was a loving, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Willie Marzell Spillars; one son, Jerry Spillars; her parents, John and Clemmie Thacker; one sister, Betty Cash; one brother, O.J. Thacker.
Survivors include her children, Mary Ann Coody of Kingsland, GA, Danny Ray Spillars and wife, Beverly of Newellton, Linda Spillars of Newellton, Gwen Guree and husband, Daryl of Newellton, John Spillars and wife, Ashley of St. Joe; ten grandchildren, Danny, Jackie, Kenneth, John, Matthew, Bobby Joe, Brad, Jeremy, Lexus, Tanner; fifteen great-grandchildren, nine great-great-grandchildren, and one great-great-great-grandson, and a host of extended family and friends.
Pallbearers will be grandsons, Danny Ray Spillars, Jr., Kenneth McDaniel, John McDaniel, Matthew McDaniel, Brad Guree, and Bobby Joe Hemphill, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Tanner Spillars, Jeremy Spillars, and Tommy Jefferson.
Mrs. Spillars was born May 20, 1936 in Franklin Parish, LA and passed from this life on February 26, 2023 in Winnsboro, LA at the age of 86.
She was a lifelong faithful member of Bethany Baptist Church of Newellton. She loved to fish, read, crochet beautiful things, and spending time with her family. She loved her family, especially her grandchildren. She was a loving, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Willie Marzell Spillars; one son, Jerry Spillars; her parents, John and Clemmie Thacker; one sister, Betty Cash; one brother, O.J. Thacker.
Survivors include her children, Mary Ann Coody of Kingsland, GA, Danny Ray Spillars and wife, Beverly of Newellton, Linda Spillars of Newellton, Gwen Guree and husband, Daryl of Newellton, John Spillars and wife, Ashley of St. Joe; ten grandchildren, Danny, Jackie, Kenneth, John, Matthew, Bobby Joe, Brad, Jeremy, Lexus, Tanner; fifteen great-grandchildren, nine great-great-grandchildren, and one great-great-great-grandson, and a host of extended family and friends.
Pallbearers will be grandsons, Danny Ray Spillars, Jr., Kenneth McDaniel, John McDaniel, Matthew McDaniel, Brad Guree, and Bobby Joe Hemphill, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Tanner Spillars, Jeremy Spillars, and Tommy Jefferson.