CRESCENT CITY -- Memorial services will be held for Theda Gail McMickle, 63, at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 2005, at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Pitkin. Rev. B. G. Dyess, a cousin, will officiate. Graveside services will be held at Garden of Memories Cemetery, in Winnfield, under the coordination of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.
Ms. McMickle died at her Crescent City, Cali, home, Oct. 21, 2004, of cancer. Ms. McMickle was born Feb. 3, 1941, at Baptist Hospital, in Alexandria.
After graduating from Natchitoches High School, Theda received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education from Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches. She then earned her specialist degree at UC-Davis, and attended the College of the Redwoods in California. After teaching a short time in Louisiana, Theda taught 30 years and retired in Northern California.
Theda was a champion of children's rights. She liked to love, sing, dance, travel. She had an aura about her that lighted the lives she touched. She lived life with gusto and finesse. She enjoyed making others feel special by making ordinary events extraordinary.
With her children, friends and a Vanagon, Theda bicycled from Northern California to the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics Games. She was the leading lady in both 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' musicals, presented by Lighthouse Repertory Theatre in California. She participated in the College of the Redwoods' choral theme tour of Europe and lived with a family in Mexico to learn the Spanish language and culture. She hosted Yumi, a Japanese foreign exchange student, and later attended Yumi's wedding in Japan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin J. McMickle and Myrtle Smith McMickle, her grandmother, Cordie Goleman McMickle Maxwell, and her sister, Wanda McMickle Duke.
Survivors include her son, William Eugene Blanchard, Jr., of San Diego, Cali., daughter, Tanya Sioux Blanchard, her dogs, Rufus, Niko, and Silky, grandchildren, Christopher Myers, M' Laura Yates, Robert Wheeler, all of Crescent City, Cali., Paige Nichole Blanchard, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Chase Raquel Blanchard, of Eugene, Oreg., sister, Aline McMickle Hughes Dupuy, of Lake Charles, brother, Ralph Wayne McMickle, of Monroe, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, June 9, 2005
Ms. McMickle died at her Crescent City, Cali, home, Oct. 21, 2004, of cancer. Ms. McMickle was born Feb. 3, 1941, at Baptist Hospital, in Alexandria.
After graduating from Natchitoches High School, Theda received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education from Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches. She then earned her specialist degree at UC-Davis, and attended the College of the Redwoods in California. After teaching a short time in Louisiana, Theda taught 30 years and retired in Northern California.
Theda was a champion of children's rights. She liked to love, sing, dance, travel. She had an aura about her that lighted the lives she touched. She lived life with gusto and finesse. She enjoyed making others feel special by making ordinary events extraordinary.
With her children, friends and a Vanagon, Theda bicycled from Northern California to the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics Games. She was the leading lady in both 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' musicals, presented by Lighthouse Repertory Theatre in California. She participated in the College of the Redwoods' choral theme tour of Europe and lived with a family in Mexico to learn the Spanish language and culture. She hosted Yumi, a Japanese foreign exchange student, and later attended Yumi's wedding in Japan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin J. McMickle and Myrtle Smith McMickle, her grandmother, Cordie Goleman McMickle Maxwell, and her sister, Wanda McMickle Duke.
Survivors include her son, William Eugene Blanchard, Jr., of San Diego, Cali., daughter, Tanya Sioux Blanchard, her dogs, Rufus, Niko, and Silky, grandchildren, Christopher Myers, M' Laura Yates, Robert Wheeler, all of Crescent City, Cali., Paige Nichole Blanchard, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Chase Raquel Blanchard, of Eugene, Oreg., sister, Aline McMickle Hughes Dupuy, of Lake Charles, brother, Ralph Wayne McMickle, of Monroe, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, June 9, 2005
CRESCENT CITY -- Memorial services will be held for Theda Gail McMickle, 63, at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 2005, at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Pitkin. Rev. B. G. Dyess, a cousin, will officiate. Graveside services will be held at Garden of Memories Cemetery, in Winnfield, under the coordination of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.
Ms. McMickle died at her Crescent City, Cali, home, Oct. 21, 2004, of cancer. Ms. McMickle was born Feb. 3, 1941, at Baptist Hospital, in Alexandria.
After graduating from Natchitoches High School, Theda received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education from Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches. She then earned her specialist degree at UC-Davis, and attended the College of the Redwoods in California. After teaching a short time in Louisiana, Theda taught 30 years and retired in Northern California.
Theda was a champion of children's rights. She liked to love, sing, dance, travel. She had an aura about her that lighted the lives she touched. She lived life with gusto and finesse. She enjoyed making others feel special by making ordinary events extraordinary.
With her children, friends and a Vanagon, Theda bicycled from Northern California to the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics Games. She was the leading lady in both 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' musicals, presented by Lighthouse Repertory Theatre in California. She participated in the College of the Redwoods' choral theme tour of Europe and lived with a family in Mexico to learn the Spanish language and culture. She hosted Yumi, a Japanese foreign exchange student, and later attended Yumi's wedding in Japan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin J. McMickle and Myrtle Smith McMickle, her grandmother, Cordie Goleman McMickle Maxwell, and her sister, Wanda McMickle Duke.
Survivors include her son, William Eugene Blanchard, Jr., of San Diego, Cali., daughter, Tanya Sioux Blanchard, her dogs, Rufus, Niko, and Silky, grandchildren, Christopher Myers, M' Laura Yates, Robert Wheeler, all of Crescent City, Cali., Paige Nichole Blanchard, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Chase Raquel Blanchard, of Eugene, Oreg., sister, Aline McMickle Hughes Dupuy, of Lake Charles, brother, Ralph Wayne McMickle, of Monroe, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, June 9, 2005
Ms. McMickle died at her Crescent City, Cali, home, Oct. 21, 2004, of cancer. Ms. McMickle was born Feb. 3, 1941, at Baptist Hospital, in Alexandria.
After graduating from Natchitoches High School, Theda received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education from Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches. She then earned her specialist degree at UC-Davis, and attended the College of the Redwoods in California. After teaching a short time in Louisiana, Theda taught 30 years and retired in Northern California.
Theda was a champion of children's rights. She liked to love, sing, dance, travel. She had an aura about her that lighted the lives she touched. She lived life with gusto and finesse. She enjoyed making others feel special by making ordinary events extraordinary.
With her children, friends and a Vanagon, Theda bicycled from Northern California to the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics Games. She was the leading lady in both 'Oklahoma' and 'Carousel' musicals, presented by Lighthouse Repertory Theatre in California. She participated in the College of the Redwoods' choral theme tour of Europe and lived with a family in Mexico to learn the Spanish language and culture. She hosted Yumi, a Japanese foreign exchange student, and later attended Yumi's wedding in Japan.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin J. McMickle and Myrtle Smith McMickle, her grandmother, Cordie Goleman McMickle Maxwell, and her sister, Wanda McMickle Duke.
Survivors include her son, William Eugene Blanchard, Jr., of San Diego, Cali., daughter, Tanya Sioux Blanchard, her dogs, Rufus, Niko, and Silky, grandchildren, Christopher Myers, M' Laura Yates, Robert Wheeler, all of Crescent City, Cali., Paige Nichole Blanchard, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Chase Raquel Blanchard, of Eugene, Oreg., sister, Aline McMickle Hughes Dupuy, of Lake Charles, brother, Ralph Wayne McMickle, of Monroe, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, June 9, 2005
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