Funeral services for Mr. Gordon E. "Mac" McQuillin, age 79, of the Beekman Community were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop with the Reverends Darrell Holland and Andy Myrick officiating. Interment followed at the Beekman Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Aline "Bonnie" Ann DeFreese, 77, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday December 23, 2008, at Horseshoe Baptist Church with Bro. Don Slack, Bro. Newton Smith and Bro. Francis Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Christ Church Cemetery under the direction of Golden Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Monday, starting at 4 p.m. at the church.

Jimmy Walker, 62, expediting supervisor for Trumbo Incorporated, died Saturday, December 20, 2008 at Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto.

Funeral services for Mrs. Margie Bond, 91, of Swartz will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008 at the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home with the Rev. Tony Smith of Monroe officiating. Interment will follow at Carter Cemetery. The family received friends from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19 at the funeral home on Lamy Lane.

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Bray Mayo, 70, of Bastrop will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 20, 2008 at the Chapel of Golden Funeral Home with the Rev. Dale Jordan and Father Richard Norsworthy officiating. Interment will follow at Pinegrove Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Golden Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Funeral services for Freddie Murphy will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 20, 2008 at New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. George Glass Jr. officiating. Interment will follow at Whispering Pines Cemetery under the direction of Montgomery Funeral Home.

Visitation will be held from 2-6 p.m. today at Montgomery Chapel.

Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Jo Scroggins Spear, 74 of Bastrop will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, December 18, 2008 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop with Bishop Jimmie Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Christ Church Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.

Visitation with the family will be from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday evening, December 17 at Cox Funeral Home.

Funeral services for James Scroggins of Bastrop will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in the chapel of Cox Funeral Homes, Bastrop. Interment will follow at Hughes Chapel Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mr. James Scroggins, 65, of Bastrop will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop with Bishop Kelvin Copeland officiating. Interment will follow at the Hughes Chapel Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home, Bastrop.

Betty Jo Scroggins Spear, 74, of Bastrop, a retired Bell South operator died Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Services incomplete under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys "Gaggy" Dawson Pickren of Mer Rouge were  held at 1 p.m. Monday, December 15, 2008 at the Mer Rouge Baptist Church with the Rev. Ron Vollmar officiating.

Interment followed at the Unity Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop.

Visitation with the family was Sunday, December 14, from 5  until 7 p.m. at Cox Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Mr. Billy J. McKoin, 80, of Mer Rouge will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec.14, 2008 at the Chapel of Oak Woods Home for the Elderly in Mer Rouge with the Rev. Terry Mims officiating. Interment will follow at the Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Dr. Don Quinn will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home in Bastrop. He succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease at age 89 after spending the last three and a half years in the Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home in Monroe. Father Ned Head will officiate the ceremony, which will be preceded by a visitation with the family beginning at 1 p.m.

Funeral services for Mrs. Lois M. Jenkins Reitzell, 80, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 at the chapel of Golden Funeral Home with the Rev. Annie Mae Allen and the Rev. Jeff Willis officiating. Interment will follow at Christ Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held Saturday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Golden Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Mrs. Essie Edwards Hudson, 87, of Bastrop will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 at the First Assembly of God of Bastrop with the Revs. Leonard Sapp, Jeff Willis and Doug Edwards officiating. Interment will follow at the Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.