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Submitted: 12/11/20 • Approved: 3/5/22 • Last Updated: 3/8/22 • R297516-G297515-S3
March 23, 1922 - May 9, 2017
Funeral services celebrating the life of Cortez Bush White Rhoads, age 95 of Vivian, Louisiana will be held at 10:00 am Friday May 12, 2017 at the Oil City United Pentecostal Church with Rev Kent Rhoads and Rev Trey McGuire officiating. Interment will follow at the Vivian Cemetery.
Mrs Rhoads was born in Summerfield, Louisiana March 23, 1922 to James William Bush and Pearl Lillian Revel. After a brief struggle with Leukemia and Dementia, Mrs Rhoads left this world to join her Savior in Glory May 9, 2017.She was retired at the age of 86 from the Vivian Nursing Home, where she was an LPN for many years. She loved nursing and taking care of people. Mrs Rhoads loved to read, work in her yard, sew, play games-Mexican Train and Chicken Foot and she loved to COOK. Her favorite sayings, “Come on eat a Lil more” and “Gods been so good to me”. Mrs Rhoads was a faithful servant to our Lord and attended the Pentecostal Church.
Mrs Rhoads is preceded in death by her first husband, Carl white and her second husband, Kenneth Rhoads, parents, 3 sisters and 1 brother, daughter Joyce Ann White Rhoads and husband Eddy, stepson Melvin Rhoads. She is survived by her baby sister Dorothy Jamison and husband Freddie; son Carl Timothy White and wife Janice of Blanchard, Louisiana; son Marvin Rhoads and wife Melva of Vivian, Louisiana; daughter-in-law Lucille Rhoads of Logansport, Louisiana. Mrs Rhoads is also survived by grandchildren, Barry Rhoads and wife, LaNell, Ronnie Rhoads and wife Robyn, Shane Rhoads and wife Terris, Angie White, Keith White and wife Christi, Carla White, Tiffany Rhoads McGuire and husband Trey, Melissa Martin and husband Eric and Gabe Loftin along with several great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Honoring Mrs Rhoads as pallbearers will be her grandsons, Ronnie, Keith, Jonathon, Logan James, Logan Edward and Preston.
The family has requested that memorials be made to: Oil City UPC Mission Fund, PO Box 368, Oil City, Louisiana 71061
Contributed on 12/11/20 by debbraszymanski
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