Velda Mae Neal

Velda Mae Woods Neal Cox Funeral Home Bastrop, Louisiana BASTROP, LA. Funeral services for Mrs. Velda Mae Neal will be held 2:00 p.m. Sunday May 2, 2010 at the Hurricane Grove Baptist Church in Sikes, Louisiana with Dr. L.H. McCollough officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop. The family will receive friends Saturday May 1, 2010 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Cox Funeral Home, Bastrop and Sunday May 2nd from 1:00 p.m. until time for services at the Hurricane Grove Baptist Church. Velda was born to the union of Isaiah C. Adams and Julia Ophelia Willis Adams on November 2, 1921 in Sikes, Louisiana. She passed from this life on April 29, 2010 at the age of 88, in Bastrop. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Howard J. Woods and Olof Neal; an infant daughter, Linda Gayle Woods; and three sisters, Glenda Vee Adams, Lucille Walker, and Myrtle Crain. Spring was Velda's favorite time of the year. As soon as the sun came up you could find her planting her flowers and as long as her health permitted, a vegetable garden. She had an untiring love and adoration for her daughter and husbands. She and Olof were very active in the First Baptist Church of Bastrop. She will be truly missed by her family and friends. Mrs. Neal is survived by her daughter Brenda Fricke and husband, Charles of Bastrop; two sisters, Vera Faye Craft of Houston, Texas and Norma Sue Rowell of Keithville, Louisiana; three grandsons, Bart Greenwood and wife, Kelly, Victor Fricke and wife, Dana all of Bastrop, Matthew Fricke and wife, Mina of Japan; four great-grandchildren, B.J. Greenwood of Baton Rouge, Tyler Greenwood of Bastrop, Alaric Fricke of Monroe, and Caelan Fricke of Bastrop. Serving as pallbearers are her grandsons Bart Greenwood and Victor Fricke and nephews Bruce Crain, Billy Wayne Crain, J.L. Crain, and Kevin Crain. The family suggest any planned memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Bastrop or to the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe.