Janie Zeline Griffith

Funeral services honoring the life of Janie Zeline Bonds Griffith will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, July 29, 2021 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport, Louisiana. Visitation will be held prior to the service at 10:00 a.m. Officiating the service will be Dr. Carl Rhoads of First United Methodist Church Shreveport. Interment will immediately follow the service in Forest Park Cemetery, 3700 St. Vincent Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana. Janie Zeline Bonds Griffith was born March 31, 1923 in Mansfield, Louisiana to Albert and Mattye Bonds and passed away, Sunday, July 25, 2021 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Janie attended school in Mansfield, LA and Grand Cane, LA, where she graduated. She later attended business school in Shreveport, LA. During World War II she worked for the federal government at Selman Army Airfield in Monroe, LA, Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA and Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, NE. She continued working for the Caddo Parish Health Unit until she retired from both the federal and state government. After she retired, she married Eugene Griffith, whose family were her neighbors during her childhood years. A devout Christian, Janie first joined the Methodist church in West Monroe, LA and eventually found her home at First United Methodist Church Shreveport, where she was a member for over 50 years. Janie enjoyed keeping up with the news and current events and would often write letters to the editor of The Shreveport Times and to her many friends. She loved to go shopping and have lunch dates with her friends and family. Janie will always be remembered for her kind and giving spirit and her many acts of selflessness. She will surely be missed by all who knew and loved her. She is preceded in death by her parents; loving husband, Eugene Griffith; sister, Emily McCully; brother, Albert J. Bonds, Jr; and nieces, Janie Thibodeaux, Anna Hatcher and Charlene Miller. Left to cherish her memory are her brother, Charles Leon Bonds, and numerous nieces and nephews. Honoring Janie as pallbearers will be Jeremy Cagle, Thomas Hord, Jr. Brooks McCoy, Kole McMellon, Dale Thibodeaux and Ricky Welton. The family suggests memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church Shreveport, 500 Common St, Shreveport, LA 71101.