ST. JOSEPH, La. — Funeral services for Mrs. Juanita W. Ratcliff, age 93, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 28, 2011, at the First United Methodist Church of St. Joseph with the Rev. Ray Owens officiating. Burial will follow at Legion Cemetery in Newellton. Visitation will be at the church Saturday from 1:30 p.m. until the service.

Mrs. Ratcliff was born in Cherry Hill, Ala., and had lived in Tensas Parish since the early 1920s. She was a homemaker and a charter member of the First United Methodist Church of St. Joseph.

Survivors include her three sons, Clyde E. Ratcliff Jr. and wife Gail of Hot Springs, Ark., John Mitchell Ratcliff and wife Cindy of Picayune, and James E. Ratcliff and wife Renella of Vicksburg; two brothers, Fred Mitchell Walker Jr. of Jackson and James Walker of Montgomery, Ala.; one sister, Virginia Walker Riggs of Abilene, Texas; eight grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Mike Ratcliff, John Ratcliff, Jimmy Ratcliff, Jason Ratcliff, Benji Ratcliff and Scott Jernigin.

Honorary pallbearers will be Derek Batey, Jordan Batey, Kazden Batey, Derrick Thompson and Chuck Howland.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 440 Newton St., St. Joseph, LA 71366