Viola Gibson Cormane

Funeral service Viola Gibson Cormane will be held 2 PM Saturday, August 22, 2009 in Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. Wayne Hicks, Rev. Craig Beeman, and Rev. Wesley Jackson officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Baptist Cemetery under the direction of Blanchard St. Denis Funeral Home of Natchitoches, La. Visitation will be Friday, August 21, 2009 from 5 PM until 9 PM and on Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 9 AM until service time in the church. Mrs. Cormane, 92, of Natchitoches, La., died Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center in Natchitoches, La. She was a native of Aloha, La. She was a homemaker and a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She enjoyed gospel music, quilting, flower gardening, and drop in visitors She was preceded in death by her husband, George Edward Cormane; three sisiters, Mary McCain, Frances Corbett, and Eloise Thornhill; one brother, J. D. Gibson; parents, Robert E. Lee Gibson and Izzy Mary Lasyone Gibson. She is survived by six daughters, Marie Allen and husband J. W. of Summit, Ms., Lillie Mae Johnson and husband Eddie of Natchitoches, La.; Robbie Sower and husband Harold of Bellview, Fl., LaVerne Bryant and husband Gail of Winnfield, La., Gloria Goudeau and husband Clyde of Osyka, Ms., and Donna Craig and husband Tommy of Simsboro, La.; one son, Paul Cormane, Sr. and wife Linda of Natchitoches, La.; twenty grandchilddren, Jamie Allen, Jason Allen, Jimmy Johnson, Eva Bryant, Becky Collins, Alvin Whitt, Everett Whitt, Janice Whitt, Daryl Bryant, Richard Bryant, Dwight Bryant, Terri Denton, Jerry McBride, Kerry McBride, Shari Davis, Rhonda Mallo, Paul Cormane, Jr., Brandon Cormane, Wendy Vines, and Melea Sandifer; thirty-six great grandchildren and numerous great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons.