Beulah Lormand Bushnell, 89, of Lake Charles, LA died at 8:05 PM on September, 10, 2010 in Booneville, Mississippi with her loving family at her side.
Mrs. Bushnell was born in Kinder, LA to Ozyiear and Oscar Fontenot in September of 1920. She attended Fenton High School. Mrs. Bushnell has lived in Lake Charles for the past 69 years. She worked as a Cafeteria Manager for LaGrange Senior High School for 28 years. Mrs. Bushnell was a member of Eastwood United Pentecostal Church since 1957. She was in the Pentecostal Camping Club since 1976. She was President of the Louisiana School Food Association for the Calcasieu Parish School Board. Mrs. Bushnell loved spending time with her family and enjoyed cooking, sewing and crocheting in her spare time.
She is survived by her husband R. V. Bushnell of Lake Charles, one son Rev. Russell Lormand and his wife Billye Ruth of Booneville, MS, one daughter Peggy Ann Lormand of Hot Springs, AR, three granddaughters: Rene Oliver and husband Darrell, Sandra Epley and husband Greg, and Nola Mannino and husband Troy, great grandchildren Stacie Gleason, Charlotte Long, Derick Oliver Erika O'Guinn and husband Shawn , Andrea Oliver, Chad Epley and wife Rachel, Jeremy Epley, Zakary, Jazmine , Austin, Lance and Logan Mannino, and nine great great grandchildren.
Mrs. Bushnell is preceded in death by her husband Ervin Lormand and her parents Ozyiear and Oscar Fontenot three brothers: Raney, Martin and Dempsey Fontenot and one sister Inez Sonnier.
Her funeral will be held on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM from East Wood United Pentecostal Church. Rev's Murrell Ewing, Lenford Whitaker and Greg Epley will officiate. Burial will be in Green Oaks Cemetery in Kinder, Louisiana under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home. Visitation will begin on Monday at 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM in the funeral home and will continue on Tuesday at 8:00 AM until the time of services at the church.
I wish we could be there for you guys at this time. We will sure miss her. But like Renee said before we left, we enjoyed the time we had with her while she was alive.
Russell Peggy, My prayers are with you family. Aunt Beulah always had a smile on her face a kind word. I really enjoyed her cooking. She is now at peace with her family friends in heaven. I know my Mom is talking too much with her. We have so many angels. I love you cousins,D'Nita Buller Bradshaw