Verna Mae Barfield

Throughout her life Verna Mae had many adventures with her brother and sister growing up. In 1947 she married the love of her life B.W. Barfield Jr and for the next 55 years they never left each other’s side. She was on the women’s pumper team for the volunteer fire fighters of Baytown, the Baytown Rough Riders and a lifetime member of the Baytown Youth Fair. Her true enjoyment was her family, for many years each Sunday she would cook dinner for her family at her house and make her special points for dessert. When she moved in with her daughter in the latter years of her life she loved to sit on the back porch and watch her great grandchildren with their show animals. Her family loved hearing her stories of her childhood and how the world was better back then. Gee loved all animals and got pleasure out of watching the cows and chickens and feeding her great grand dogs Rose and Idgie under the table. Her family will greatly miss Gee but their memories of her will live on for a lifetime.

Verna was preceded in death by her husband, B.W. Barfield Jr; father and mother, Mark Soileau and Ruby; brother, Alvin Soileau; sister and brother in law, Dorothy and Wayne Barfield; mother and father in law, Mildred and Bruce Barfield; daughter, Trudy Boucher; and nephew, Arthur Lee LaFour.

She is survived by her daughter and husband, Rockell and Gary Thomas; special daughter (niece), Kathi LaFour; grandson, Jarred Thomas and his wife Magen; granddaughters, Holly Thomas, and Libby Boucher and husband C.J. Myrick; niece, Michele Mahala and her husband James; great grandchildren, Kena, Grace and Wallace Thomas, Paige Rome, Brennon Myrick; and honorary great grandson, Garrett Lofty; extended family: Carolyn and Chris Wilburn; Calvin Thomas; Randy, Ashley, Brooke and Blake Thomas; Robert, Tiffany, Tenley and Grady Thomas; Savanna Wilburn; Dawson Clemons; Sophia Melton; Tanner and Hagen Miller; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will take place at Earthman Memory Gardens Cemetery, 8624 Garth Rd., Baytown, TX 77521 on Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 10:00 am.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.navarrefuneralhome.com for the Barfield family.