Funeral services for Barbara Pierce Reppond of Waskom Texas will be held at 1 p.m, April 7th 2016. at the First Methodist Church in Waskom with Pastor Sherry Q. Crenshaw officiating. Visitation will be at 12:30 prior to the service at the church. Burial will be in Restland Cemetery, Waskom.
Barbara Reppond a long time resident of Waskom Texas was carried home to God on April 4
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2016. She was preceded by her parents Mr. Everett Franklin and Edith Sadler Pierce as well as her brother Bobby G. Pierce.
Barbara was born on July 8, 1934, in Henderson Texas and grew up in the ArkLaTex area. She graduated from NSU in 1953 and worked as a nurse in various parts of the U.S. and Canada. She received recognition for her distinguished service at the Sisters of Charity of Providence Hospital in Anchorage Alaska after the 1964 earthquake. She later taught nursing at Southern State College in Arkansas and at Northwestern State University in Shreveport. She worked overseas in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia including Assistant Administrator at the King Fahad Hospital. She served as Alderman for the city of Waskom Texas from 2009 until 2016. She traveled various parts of the world and was an adventurous woman whose hobbies including being a certified open water diver, painting, Mudbugs Hockey and riding in hot air balloons.
She is survived by a loving family including her son Jace Reppond and his wife Janet, her 3 grandchildren Scott Reppond, his wife Lauren and their 2 children Lucy Claire and Amelia Jane, as well as Sarah Reppond Hutto and her husband Brandon and her granddaughter Stacy Reppond. Her other surviving family members include sister-in-law Betty Pierce and Nieces Brandy Pierce and Becky Pettis and her family Charlie, Ashley and Alison as well as grand nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Scott Reppond, Brandon Hutto, Ashley Williams, Murf King, Leslie Solomon, Westy Meisenheimer. Honorary Pallbearers will be Jesse Moore, James King, Charlie Pettis, Tommy Philpot, Jimmy Dale Moore, Michael Phillips and Melvin Lofton.
The family would like to recognize Tammy Lofton, Kathy McGinnis and the entire Waskom Fire Dept.