Etta Lena Ford Chevallier

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Funeral services for Etta Lena Ford Chevallier, 91, of Leesville will be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in the Toro Community with Rev. Kendal Price officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Hill
Cemetery, under the direction of Labby Memorial Funeral Home of Leesville.
Visitation will be held from noon until the time of service Sept. 25 at the church.
Etta, the daughter of Lewis Edward and Lydia Reeves Windham, was born
June 12, 1921, in Jena. She passed away Sept. 22, 2012 in Leesville.
Mrs. Etta was a native of the Belah Community outside of Jena. She moved to Leesville in 2005. She was a homemaker and member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in the Toro
Community.
She was preceded in death by her husband, LaVelle Ford; sister, Dottie Price and grandson, Leonard Evans.
She is survived by her son, Jerry LaVelle Ford and wife Shelia of Houston; daughters, Sharon Evans and husband,
Jimmy of Leesville and Dottie “Dianne” Anderson and husband, M.J. of Trinity, Texas; brother, Earl Windham of Jena; grandchildren, Jimmy Evans, Jr., FeLisha Evans, Edgar Evans, Murphy Anderson, Amanda Ford and Jeremy Ford; nine great-grandchildren
and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Words of comfort may be expressed to the family at www.labbymemorial.com.