Gladine Langley Willis

Funeral services celebrating the life of Gladine Langley Willis, 81, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, August 15, 2024 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport, Louisiana. A burial will follow at Mooringsport Memorial Gardens in Mooringsport, Louisiana. A visitation will be held on August 15, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. until service time. Officiating the service will be Reverend Lucretia Speight.

Mrs. Willis was born in Willow, Arkansas on March 26, 1943 to Jasper Langley and Dorothy Buck Langley and passed away on August 10, 2024 at Christus Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Gladine was a daughter, sister, aunt, wife, a loving companion, mama, dog mom and the best Cotten Pickin Nanny to so many. If she knew you; she loved you and made sure you knew it. She raised a family full of girls and a few boys. She loved going to yard sales and gardening; really anything outside she could make beautiful she did.

Mrs. Willis was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jerry Thomas Willis; grandson, Jerry McClain; four sisters, Carlene Lawson, Alene Ellis, Olene LeGrand, Christine Langley and one brother, Wayne Langley.

Those left to cherish her memory are her loving companion, Charles Ellis; six daughters, Lucretia Speight and husband, Wayne, Jerri Kay Willis and Calvin, Carolyn Landry and Richard, Carol Lynn Gray, Jackie Byrd and husband, Brian, Susie Buchanan and husband, Curtis; and one son, John Paul Banks and wife Lou Ann. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Christina, Thomas, Stephen, Kayla, Andrew, Savana, Shannon, Michael, Andrew, Kaylee, Brigette, Heather, Matthew, Tyler, Emily, Beau and Nicole; 27 great grandchildren, 3 great-great grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and a host of friends.

Honoring Mrs. Willis as pallbearers will be Tyler Buchanan, Ty Blankenship, Kerry Blankenship, Bubba Sanders, Jacob Kellogg, Thomas Speight. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Gabriel Waters.

Mothers plant the seeds of love that bloom forever. A garden of beautiful memories, sprayed with a million tears. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasured keepsake. We keep in our hearts the love of the past, for there it was planted forever to last.

Your presence we will miss, your memory will be treasured, loving you always, forgetting you never. In the hearts of those who loved you, you will always be there. Rest now, we will always love you, your little darlings.