Minden, LA

Carmanell "Carman"

Thornton

Funeral services for Carman Thornton will be held Monday, March 2, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel in Minden. Interment will follow at Tulip Cemetery in Athens, Louisiana. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2015 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden. Carman was born June 9, 1929 in Shreveport, Louisiana and entered into rest February 27, 2015 in Minden, Louisiana. She was owner/operator of Country Place Bar in Minden, Louisiana. She was preceded in death by her husbands Ralph Walters, Sr, and David Thornton, parents George and Clara Dement, Sr., son John Walters, brothers George Dement and Allian Dement, sister Almajean Hayes, and grandson Glenn Lee. She is survived by her sons Charles Walters of Minden, Ralph W. Walters, Jr. of Shreveport, daughters Martha Walters of Minden, Clara Nell Lowrie of Shreveport, Peggy Lee and husband Ting of Benton, brother Mastin Dement of Houston,, Texas, special nieces Veron Jean McDonald and husband John of Arkansas, Ida Mitchell of Florida, Susan Smith and husband Thomas of Alabama, stepchildren Jane, Judy, Karen, Rickey, and Jerry, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.   Rose-Neath Funeral Home 211 Murrell Street Minden, Louisiana 71055 (318) 377-3412 Fax (318) 377-0227