Virgil Gary McGehee

SHREVEPORT, LA - Funeral services celebrating the life of Virgil Gary McGehee, 85, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at Rose-Neath Southside Chapel. Interment will follow at Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery at 2:00 p.m.in Belmont, La. Rev. John Higginbotham and Rev. Bill Blakely will officiate. Visitation will be held at Rose-Neath Southside Funeral Home from 9:00 a.m. until service time on December 21, 2016. Gary was born on July 31, 1931 in Marthaville, La to Russell and Nannie Pierce McGehee, and passed away December 18, 2016. Gary proudly served in the U.S. Navy for 23 years. After retiring he moved to Marthaville to hobby farm and raised cattle. Later he worked and retired as an electrician for The City of Shreveport. He was a member of Mangum United Methodist Church where he enjoyed the many activities of his Sunday school class and also taught the "Joy Class" for over 20 years. He loved to tell stories of family and U.S. Navy memories. He will be remembered for his beautiful smile. He was preceded in death by his parents, loving wife, Mildred Lee McGehee; three brothers, Everett, Nollie K., and Ed McGehee; three sisters, Freddie Rains, Eloise Downs, and Gretchen Greer. Surviving him is son, Lee McGehee and wife Maureen of Conway, Arkansas; daughter, Nancy McGehee Allen and husband Wyn of Cheneyville; grandchildren, Jonathan Allen, Jared Allen, and Joshua McGehee; three great grandchildren, Alexis Allen, Collin Allen, Cameron Allen; sister, Jane Wells of Shreveport. Special thanks to Garden Court Health and Rehab of Bossier City, Amedysis Hospice, and Hospice Nurse, Shannon. He and the family were blessed by the love and care of devoted sister, Jane. In lieu of flowers the family suggests that memorials may be made to American Cancer Society or Mangum United Methodist Church Shreveport.