Bobbye Jean Gaar

Bobbye Jean Gaar obituary, Monroe, LA

Bobbye Jean Gaar

Bobbye Gaar Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Griffin Funeral Home - West Monroe on Aug. 11, 2023.

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Funeral services for Bobbye Jean Gaar will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, August 12, 2023, at Griffin Funeral Home of West Monroe with Brother Matt Coker. The family will accept friends for visitation from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM on Friday, August 11, 2023.
Bobbye was a special lady who cherished her family and friends. She was a loving wife, mother, proud grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother. She was a member of Calhoun Baptist Church, Street Rod Association, and a former member of the Gold Wing Riders. She and her husband road all over the country. She loved gardening and working in her flower beds. She held several jobs during her lifetime: wrecker, school bus driver, insurance appraiser, and owner of Mitchell's Body & Frame Shop with her husband, Donnie. She loved her family very much and especially her grandchildren. She was greatly loved and will be dearly missed by her family and friends.
She is preceded in death by her, Husband Donnie Gaar; Parent, Homer and Violene Antley; Brothers Ellis Antley and Pete Antley; grandson Colt Pritchard; and Granddaughter Krystle Richter.
Those left to cherish her memories include her children Teresa Stelley (Mitch), Becky Tubbs (Gary), JP Pritchard (Diane), Homer Pritchard (Debbie), Tammy Pritchard; Stepchildren Nora Parker (Matt), Dana Duncan (Dale), Randy Gaar (Lisa), Charlotte Segovia (Oscar); fourteen grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren, three great-great-grand grandchildren; and a host of extended family and friends.
Pallbearers will be Dane Pritchard, Jessie Tubbs, BJ Daniel, Danny Pritchard, Danny Pritchard JR., TJ Pritchard, Kasen Deal.

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