Marguerite Ellen (Wyatt) Montelongo

A service to honor the life of Mrs. Marguerite Ellen (Wyatt) Montelongo will be at 10 am Thursday, October 19, 2017, at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home of Natchitoches. Burial will follow at Pisgah Cemetery near Marthaville, LA. The family will receive friends from 5 pm until 9 pm on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home. Mrs. Montelongo, 83 years of age and a resident of Natchitoches, passed away Monday, October 16, 2017, with her family by her side. She was born October 28, 1933, to Carl Wyatt, Sr. and Ethel Nancy Moore Wyatt in Marthaville, LA. She worked for many years at Nichols in Many, LA. A strong and caring woman, she was deeply rooted in her faith. A member of First Baptist in Natchitoches, she enjoyed fellowship with her church family. She will be dearly missed but always remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt. She was preceded in death by her parents; infant son, Michael Todd Franks; and her siblings, Carl Wyatt, Jr. and his wife Bobbie, Gene Wyatt and Charles Glenn Wyatt. She is survived by her husband, Fernando Montelongo; children, Jeff Franks and his wife Patricia and Regina Trichel and her husband Rickey; siblings, Delores Lewing, Ronald Wyatt and his wife Betty and Donald Wyatt and his wife Vickie; and a sister in law, Myra Wyatt. She was blessed with 4 grandchildren, Joseph Uribe, Heather Hinds, Haley Franks, and Jeffrey Franks, Jr.; as well as 2 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.