Ricky Len "Pero" Pickett

A funeral service celebrating the life of Ricky Len “Pero” Pickett, 67, will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Home Coushatta chapel with Bro. David Hanna officiating. Interment will follow in Thomas Wren Cemetery. The family will receive friends from noon until service time.

Pero was born on July 8, 1955, in Ringgold, LA to Loyd Ray and Carmen Etta Pickett and passed away May 14, 2023. in Shreveport, LA.

Pero was preceded in death by son, Stewart Len Pickett; parents, Loyd Ray and Carmen Etta Pickett; brothers, Douglas and Darrell Pickett; sister, Anita Pickett Lockey; sisters-in-law, Maxine Pickett and Vickie Pickett.

Left to cherish his memory are his son, Duston Ray Pickett; sisters, Diane Pickett Cannon and husband, Bobby and Robin Pickett Green and husband, Reggie; brothers, Dwayne Pickett and wife, Patricia and Roger Dale Pickett; sister-in-law, Linda Pickett; brother-in-law, Larry Lockey; three granddaughters; other relatives and special friends, Clinton and Sarah Wood and Donna Messick.

Honoring Pero as pallbearers will be Duston Pickett, Brandon Green, Jeremy Pickett, Wesley Messick, Teddy Bamburg and Clinton Wood. Serving as an honorary pallbearer is Eli Wood.