Dorothy Mitcham Tynes

Funeral service for Dorothy Mitcham Tynes will be 3 PM Sunday, June 28, 2009 in Harmony Baptist Church with Rev. Joseph Lloyd officiating. Burial will be in Roberts Cemetery near Harmony Community. La. under the direction of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home of Natchitoches, La. Visitation will be Saturday, June 27, 2009 from 5 PM until 9 PM in the funeral home and on Sunday, June 28, 2009 from 1 PM till service time in the church. Mrs. Tynes, 78, of Harmony Community, La., died Thursday, June 25, 2009, in her residence. She was a native and lifelong resident of Harmony Community, La. She was a homemaker and memory maker for her many family members and friends. She was a member of Harmony Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Vernon 'C.V.' Tynes, Sr.; parents, Joseph Edward 'Ed' Mitcham and Margaret Nancy Sparks Mitcham. Her most precious possessions were her children, one daughter, Virginia Lloyd and husband Rev. David Lloyd of Harmony Community, La.; two sons, Charles V. Tynes, Jr. and wife Traci of Harmony Community, La. and Donald Tynes and wife Sandra of Harmony Community, La.; fourteen grandchildren, Dorothy Bouriaque, Margaret Reed and husband Michael, Jonathan Lloyd and wife Sandy, Joey Lloyd and wife Lauren, Joshua Lloyd and wife Amy, James Lloyd and wife Becky, Christopher Tynes and wife Melody, Jeffrey Tynes and wife Claudia, Damon Tynes, Caitlin Martin, Krista Martin, Amy Hastings, William Tynes, and Daniel Tynes; nineteen great-grandchildren; one sister, Gradie Middleton of Harmony Community, La. Pallbearers will be Christopher Tynes, Jeffrey Tynes, Damon Tynes, Daniel Tynes, William Tynes, Jonathan Lloyd, Joshua Lloyd, James Lloyd, Joey Lloyd, and Michael Reed.