A public viewing will be conducted from 8:00 a.m. until funeral time at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2020 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 168 Brocato Lane in Raceland, LA. Burial will follow in the Brooklyn Cemetery.
She is survived by her daughters, Elder Charita Johnson and Jerialyn Joseph; children she reared as her own, Cherniah Richard and Marquita Folse; stepsons, Curtis and Tai Raymond; twelve grandchildren; brothers, Anthony and Nolan Hester, Jr. (Glenda), and Alvin Smith (Rosalyn); sisters, Laura Allen (Gary), Debra Hills, Paula Smith (Ollie), Denise Washington and Charlotte Richard; godchildren, Deondra Triplett, Gary Wheaton, Jyundra Joseph and Lionel Batiste, Jr.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis Boyd; parents, Nolan, Sr. and Dorothy Lawson Hester; brothers, Henry and Ron Keith Hester; sisters, Lurenda Hester, Linda Raymond and Gwendolyn Smith; nephews, Nolan, III and James Hester.
Arrangements entrusted to Jones Funeral Home of Houma.
