Glenda Irene Powell

Mrs. Glenda Irene Kay Powell, age 70, of Natchitoches, LA, passed away Monday, February 21, 2011, at Willis-Knighton North in Shreveport, LA. Arrangements are being handled by Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home, in Natchitoches, LA, where the family will receive friends from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Wednesday, February 23, 2011. The funeral service will be at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home at 11:00 AM Thursday, February 24, 2011, with Rev. Roger Matkin officiating. Interment will be at Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Keithville, LA at 2:00 PM following the service. Irene was a loving and caring wife, mother, and grandmother. She enjoyed spending her days with her family and friends, reading, and will be dearly missed by those lives that she touched. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Powell; one son, Lawrence Glen Powell, her parents, Lawrence Cornelius Kay and Nelwyn Kay; and one sister, Mary Nell Pardee. She is survived by her two daughters, Cheryl Garcia of Prince George, VA and Daughter-Brenda Kijanski of Natchitoches, LA; one son, Mike Powell and wife Mechelle of Natchitoches, LA; seven grandchildren, Jessica Jackson and husband Randy of Natchitoches, LA Glen 'Bubba' Kijanski and wife Leann of Vowells Mill, LA, Mike Kijanski and wife Crystal of Many, LA, Mary Lister of Natchitoches, LA, Robert Garcia and wife Jessica of Las Vegas, NV, Rachel Garcia of Prince George, VA, and Krystal Powell of Hot Springs, AR; sixteen great grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, three sisters, Dora Beth Weaver of Creston, LA, Lenora Craig of Keithville, LA, and Carolyn Kerry of Winnfield, LA; and four brothers, Wesley Kay of Livingston, TX, Edward Kay of Creston, LA, James Kay of Houston, TX, and Wayne Kay of Hall Summit, LA.