Graveside services will be held for Woodard Wise Christian at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at Alabama Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Friday at Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Arcadia.
Woodard Wise Christan, age 83 of Arcadia, LA, passed away on May 6, 2020. He married his wife, Doris, in December of 1957, and celebrated 62 years of marriage. Woodard was a deputy sheriff for the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Department for 22 years, as well as a police officer in Simsboro, LA, before retiring in 2017.
Preceding Woodard in death are his parents, DeWitt and Maudie Bell Christian, brothers Ralph, Purvis, and Herbert, and grandson Graham. Surviving him is his wife Doris Christian, children Joanie Christian, Bobby Christian and wife Tammy, and Todd Christian, grandchildren Wesley, April, Christopher, Amanda, Travis, Kevin, Haley, Damian, Daniel, and Ashley, by 12 great grandchildren, brothers Kenneth Christian and Louis Wayne Christian and wife Marzell, sisters Estelle and Barbara Nell and husband James, as well as many other nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
Honoring Woodard as pallbearers will be his grandsons, Wesley, Christopher, Travis, Kevin, Damian, and Daniel.