Sue Lene Dyke Davis Waibel

Sue Lene Dyke Davis Waibel was born in Clinton, Louisiana, on March 3, 1942, to Robert and Vollie Dyke and went to be with the Lord on April 22, 2024, in Minden, Louisiana.

Mrs. Sue was a retired receptionist at Borden’s Dairy in Monroe, Louisiana after 27 years of service. Sue grew up in Benton, Louisiana until she met her husband, Robert Holland Davis. She Spent her life as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was an active member of First Baptist Bossier and the Diamond Set Sunday School class. Her joy was watching the children or activities that gave way to her gifts. Her favorite was her Operation Christmas Child which in turn, gave great joy to certain children in certain parts of the world, who had nothing and her Praying Bears she distributed to the patients in the hospital. She loved spending time with her family, great-grandchildren, and her closest friends. She loved people and was a social butterfly, there was not a stranger that she did not meet. She was always sweet and kind and full of the love of God! Sue was a strong Christian woman and was not scared to let you know how she felt about the Lord.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert George Dyke and Vollie V. Smith Dyke, her eldest son, Robert Kevin Davis in 2017, her sisters Gloria J. Dyke and Robbie Roderick, and her second husband Ronald Waibel.

She is survived by her daughter, Karen Davis Upchurch (Tommy) and their children, Ashley Upchurch Norman (Clay) and their children, Edmon and Nash, Joshua Paul Upchurch (Kathryn) and their children, Bear and Alexandra; daughter, Miyo Cox Waibel Brown and late husband  (Kenny) and their children, Lisa Reber (Brandon)  and Stephen Howell; daughter-in-law, wife of the late Kevin Davis, Leigh Davis and their children, Alan Davis, and Katherine Davis Mixon (Hayden) and her children, Elizabth, Matthias, and Victoria Mixon; sister, Dottie Stroud; father of her children, Robert Holland “Bob” Davis, and a host of nieces and nephews.

Services for Sue will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2024, with visitation beginning at 1:00 p.m.  at First Baptist Bossier Chapel in Bossier City, Louisiana with Dr. Brad Jurkovich officiating. Interment will follow at Gardens of Memory in Minden, Louisiana under the direction of Rose Neath Funeral Home in Minden, Louisiana.  

Memorials may be made to Operation Christmas Child-First Baptist Bossier Church.

Pallbearers will be Josh Upchurch, Clay Norman, Alan Davis, Stephen Howell, Hayden Mixon, and Brandon Reber.