Jessie Billings Huff
(Died October 9, 2003)
OCEANSIDE, CA n Jessie Billings Huff, 95, a native of Plaquemine Point, former
resident of Bogalusa, and a resident of Oceanside, died Thursday in the LSU Regional Medical Center in Bogalusa.
Born Nov. 21, 1907, in Plaquemine Point to Ida Mae Langlois Billings and Abram Issac Billings, she came to Bogalusa with her family Jan. 1, 1910. Later that same
year her mother died and her father passed away when she was 10 years old.
Family members said she was lovingly reared by an older sister, Ida Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carlisle.
In 1925, at the age of 18 she went to work at Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. She retired from the company after 38 years as an operator in 1963.
She married William G. "Bill" Huff in 1931. Family members said she was a tireless housekeeper, dedicated wife and loving mother to her only child.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Rodney Ledet of Oceanside, CA; four grandchildren, Lora L. Manzo and husband, Guido of Flemington, NJ, William Alcide and wife Michelle Ledet, Rodney Huey Ledet II and wife, Rosmarie, and Dana Ledet Parrill and husband, Marty, all of Oceanside; and two great-granddaughters, Melanie D. Manzo, who is a junior at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and Marissa L. Manzo, a junior at Hunterdon Central High School in Flemington.
Local survivors include several nieces and nephews, "Bub" and Alma Carlisle, Marie and Don Borde, Alvan Billings and Sylvia Carlisle Lorio of Ponchatoula.
Visitation will be at Poole-Ritchie Funeral Home in Bogalusa tomorrow from 3:30-9 p.m. with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the chapel funeral service at 2 p.m. Fr. Lawrence Phelps will officiate. Interment will be in Hillview Memorial Gardens.
(Died October 9, 2003)
OCEANSIDE, CA n Jessie Billings Huff, 95, a native of Plaquemine Point, former
resident of Bogalusa, and a resident of Oceanside, died Thursday in the LSU Regional Medical Center in Bogalusa.
Born Nov. 21, 1907, in Plaquemine Point to Ida Mae Langlois Billings and Abram Issac Billings, she came to Bogalusa with her family Jan. 1, 1910. Later that same
year her mother died and her father passed away when she was 10 years old.
Family members said she was lovingly reared by an older sister, Ida Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carlisle.
In 1925, at the age of 18 she went to work at Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. She retired from the company after 38 years as an operator in 1963.
She married William G. "Bill" Huff in 1931. Family members said she was a tireless housekeeper, dedicated wife and loving mother to her only child.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Rodney Ledet of Oceanside, CA; four grandchildren, Lora L. Manzo and husband, Guido of Flemington, NJ, William Alcide and wife Michelle Ledet, Rodney Huey Ledet II and wife, Rosmarie, and Dana Ledet Parrill and husband, Marty, all of Oceanside; and two great-granddaughters, Melanie D. Manzo, who is a junior at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and Marissa L. Manzo, a junior at Hunterdon Central High School in Flemington.
Local survivors include several nieces and nephews, "Bub" and Alma Carlisle, Marie and Don Borde, Alvan Billings and Sylvia Carlisle Lorio of Ponchatoula.
Visitation will be at Poole-Ritchie Funeral Home in Bogalusa tomorrow from 3:30-9 p.m. with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the chapel funeral service at 2 p.m. Fr. Lawrence Phelps will officiate. Interment will be in Hillview Memorial Gardens.
Jessie Billings Huff
(Died October 9, 2003)
OCEANSIDE, CA n Jessie Billings Huff, 95, a native of Plaquemine Point, former
resident of Bogalusa, and a resident of Oceanside, died Thursday in the LSU Regional Medical Center in Bogalusa.
Born Nov. 21, 1907, in Plaquemine Point to Ida Mae Langlois Billings and Abram Issac Billings, she came to Bogalusa with her family Jan. 1, 1910. Later that same
year her mother died and her father passed away when she was 10 years old.
Family members said she was lovingly reared by an older sister, Ida Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carlisle.
In 1925, at the age of 18 she went to work at Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. She retired from the company after 38 years as an operator in 1963.
She married William G. "Bill" Huff in 1931. Family members said she was a tireless housekeeper, dedicated wife and loving mother to her only child.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Rodney Ledet of Oceanside, CA; four grandchildren, Lora L. Manzo and husband, Guido of Flemington, NJ, William Alcide and wife Michelle Ledet, Rodney Huey Ledet II and wife, Rosmarie, and Dana Ledet Parrill and husband, Marty, all of Oceanside; and two great-granddaughters, Melanie D. Manzo, who is a junior at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and Marissa L. Manzo, a junior at Hunterdon Central High School in Flemington.
Local survivors include several nieces and nephews, "Bub" and Alma Carlisle, Marie and Don Borde, Alvan Billings and Sylvia Carlisle Lorio of Ponchatoula.
Visitation will be at Poole-Ritchie Funeral Home in Bogalusa tomorrow from 3:30-9 p.m. with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the chapel funeral service at 2 p.m. Fr. Lawrence Phelps will officiate. Interment will be in Hillview Memorial Gardens.
(Died October 9, 2003)
OCEANSIDE, CA n Jessie Billings Huff, 95, a native of Plaquemine Point, former
resident of Bogalusa, and a resident of Oceanside, died Thursday in the LSU Regional Medical Center in Bogalusa.
Born Nov. 21, 1907, in Plaquemine Point to Ida Mae Langlois Billings and Abram Issac Billings, she came to Bogalusa with her family Jan. 1, 1910. Later that same
year her mother died and her father passed away when she was 10 years old.
Family members said she was lovingly reared by an older sister, Ida Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carlisle.
In 1925, at the age of 18 she went to work at Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. She retired from the company after 38 years as an operator in 1963.
She married William G. "Bill" Huff in 1931. Family members said she was a tireless housekeeper, dedicated wife and loving mother to her only child.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Rodney Ledet of Oceanside, CA; four grandchildren, Lora L. Manzo and husband, Guido of Flemington, NJ, William Alcide and wife Michelle Ledet, Rodney Huey Ledet II and wife, Rosmarie, and Dana Ledet Parrill and husband, Marty, all of Oceanside; and two great-granddaughters, Melanie D. Manzo, who is a junior at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and Marissa L. Manzo, a junior at Hunterdon Central High School in Flemington.
Local survivors include several nieces and nephews, "Bub" and Alma Carlisle, Marie and Don Borde, Alvan Billings and Sylvia Carlisle Lorio of Ponchatoula.
Visitation will be at Poole-Ritchie Funeral Home in Bogalusa tomorrow from 3:30-9 p.m. with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the chapel funeral service at 2 p.m. Fr. Lawrence Phelps will officiate. Interment will be in Hillview Memorial Gardens.
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