Effie Berry

Effie Nichols Berry, age 92, of Natchitoches, La., passed away Friday, February 8, 2008, at Natchitoches Nursing and Rehabilitation in Natchitoches, 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 8:00 PM Sunday, February 10, 2008. The funeral service will be at Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home at 2:00 PM Monday, February 11, 2008, with Rev. Calvin Phelps officiating. Interment will be at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches, La. Mrs. Effie was a school teacher in Natchitoches Parish for 35 years. She was very fond of cooking and being a homemaker, but her true love in life was teaching. She touched countless lives in her teaching profession. She was a great mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She will be sadly missed by all those whose lives she touched. She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel Lester Berry; and her parents, Benjamin Nichols and Regina Rachal Nichols; three brothers; and five sisters. She is survived by her two daughters, Sara Hicks and husband Kenneth of Natchitoches, La. and Dixie Barger of Sulphur, LA; four grandchildren, Tammy Wolbrink of Sulphur, LA, Shane Hicks of Natchitoches, LA, Michael Barger of Sulphur, LA, and Jonathan Hicks and wife Melissa of Natchitoches, LA; two great-grandchildren, Dalton Wolbrink and Haley Hicks; and a few nieces and nephews.