Born in Columbia, Mississippi, younger daughter of A. A. Raybourn and Cola Altimar (Rutland) Raybourn.
She grew up during the Depression, maturing early under the hardships of life amid several moves. She was always spunky, determined, and a hard worker.
She married early to Hillman Ward, who soon after the marriage enlisted in the Army due to the certainty of a looming world war. Hillman was deployed soon after Pearl Harbor, and Reda worked in the Reliance Shirt Factory in Laurel, Mississippi, which was manufacturing shirts for military uniforms.
After the war, the newly-weds were reunited and moved to Bogalusa where Hillman began a 30+ year career with the local Paper Mill and Reda Mae concentrated on being a homemaker and Mother.
She was predeceased by her parents, Andrew A. and Cola A. (Rutland) Raybourn; an older sister Pauline Raybourn; a younger brother Howard, and two of her four children: Gayle Elaine Ward Bergeron and Paul Edward Ward, all linked below.
She was and survived by a younger brother Dan, and two of her four children, a son William H. Ward and a daughter Anna Lynn.
The the short inscription on their Headstone truthfully and succinctly sums up their lives:
"Their lives were a solid foundation for their children and a Noble service to God."
She grew up during the Depression, maturing early under the hardships of life amid several moves. She was always spunky, determined, and a hard worker.
She married early to Hillman Ward, who soon after the marriage enlisted in the Army due to the certainty of a looming world war. Hillman was deployed soon after Pearl Harbor, and Reda worked in the Reliance Shirt Factory in Laurel, Mississippi, which was manufacturing shirts for military uniforms.
After the war, the newly-weds were reunited and moved to Bogalusa where Hillman began a 30+ year career with the local Paper Mill and Reda Mae concentrated on being a homemaker and Mother.
She was predeceased by her parents, Andrew A. and Cola A. (Rutland) Raybourn; an older sister Pauline Raybourn; a younger brother Howard, and two of her four children: Gayle Elaine Ward Bergeron and Paul Edward Ward, all linked below.
She was and survived by a younger brother Dan, and two of her four children, a son William H. Ward and a daughter Anna Lynn.
The the short inscription on their Headstone truthfully and succinctly sums up their lives:
"Their lives were a solid foundation for their children and a Noble service to God."
Born in Columbia, Mississippi, younger daughter of A. A. Raybourn and Cola Altimar (Rutland) Raybourn.
She grew up during the Depression, maturing early under the hardships of life amid several moves. She was always spunky, determined, and a hard worker.
She married early to Hillman Ward, who soon after the marriage enlisted in the Army due to the certainty of a looming world war. Hillman was deployed soon after Pearl Harbor, and Reda worked in the Reliance Shirt Factory in Laurel, Mississippi, which was manufacturing shirts for military uniforms.
After the war, the newly-weds were reunited and moved to Bogalusa where Hillman began a 30+ year career with the local Paper Mill and Reda Mae concentrated on being a homemaker and Mother.
She was predeceased by her parents, Andrew A. and Cola A. (Rutland) Raybourn; an older sister Pauline Raybourn; a younger brother Howard, and two of her four children: Gayle Elaine Ward Bergeron and Paul Edward Ward, all linked below.
She was and survived by a younger brother Dan, and two of her four children, a son William H. Ward and a daughter Anna Lynn.
The the short inscription on their Headstone truthfully and succinctly sums up their lives:
"Their lives were a solid foundation for their children and a Noble service to God."
She grew up during the Depression, maturing early under the hardships of life amid several moves. She was always spunky, determined, and a hard worker.
She married early to Hillman Ward, who soon after the marriage enlisted in the Army due to the certainty of a looming world war. Hillman was deployed soon after Pearl Harbor, and Reda worked in the Reliance Shirt Factory in Laurel, Mississippi, which was manufacturing shirts for military uniforms.
After the war, the newly-weds were reunited and moved to Bogalusa where Hillman began a 30+ year career with the local Paper Mill and Reda Mae concentrated on being a homemaker and Mother.
She was predeceased by her parents, Andrew A. and Cola A. (Rutland) Raybourn; an older sister Pauline Raybourn; a younger brother Howard, and two of her four children: Gayle Elaine Ward Bergeron and Paul Edward Ward, all linked below.
She was and survived by a younger brother Dan, and two of her four children, a son William H. Ward and a daughter Anna Lynn.
The the short inscription on their Headstone truthfully and succinctly sums up their lives:
"Their lives were a solid foundation for their children and a Noble service to God."
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Reda Mae Ward
March 18, 1926 - April 20, 2004
"Their lives were a solid foundation for their children and a Noble Service to God."
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