Aurelia Kerry Airhart

Aurelia Kerry Airhart, 97, passed away in Arkadelphia, AR on August 14, 2008. Arrangements are being handled by Blanchard St Denis Funeral Home in Natchitoches, LA. The visitation will be held from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Saturday, August 16, 2008. A rosary will be held during the visitation at 7:00 PM. The funeral service will be at 1:00 PM, Sunday, August 17, 2008 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Cloutierville, LA. Interment will be in the Cloutierville Catholic Cemetery. Aurelia was born to Eugene Louis Kerry and Mary Josephine Robinson on July 8, 1911 in Groom, LA. She married Ulysses Samuel Airhart on May 16, 1934. She was a loving spouse, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She loved to cook, especially for her family and friends. She will be dearly missed by all whose lives she touched. She is preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her oldest son, Larry Bruce Airhart, and two sisters, Florence LaCaze and Loraine Vercher. She is survived by one daughter, Sharon Airhart Tobin and husband Tom of Arkadelphia, AR; two sons, Ambrose Airhart and wife Anna and Andy Wayne Airhart and wife Candis, both of Natchitoches, LA; seven grandchildren, Karen Airhart Kelly and husband Bruce of Pineville, LA, Janine Airhart of Irving , TX, Denise Airhart Waters and husband Michael of Murfreesboro, TN, David Wayne Airhart and wife Lisa of Montgomery, LA, Andi J Airhart of Shreveport, LA, Tommy T Tobin and wife Jaime of Natchitoches, LA, and Melissa Tobin Blakeney and husband Justin of Arkadelphia, AR; seven great-grandchildren, Katie Kelly, Samantha Waters, Andrew Waters, Hallee Airhart, Nate Airhart, Hunter Blakeney, and Heather Tobin; one daughter-in-law, Melanie Airhart of DeVille, LA; and two sisters, Annie Colquitt of Natchitoches and Daisy Longino of Cloutierville, LA.