Funeral services for Mary Lou Ashby Rabo will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall St., Shreveport, Louisiana with a visitation held at 9:00 a.m. until service time. Burial will immediately follow at Memorial Gardens North in Blanchard, Louisiana. Officiating the service will be Reverend John Rabo and Reverend Charlie Ashby. An evening visitation will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mary Lou was born on February 17, 1940 to Lena Cocherell and Olen Ashby, Sr. in Blanchard, Louisiana and passed away Friday, April 16, 2021 in Blanchard Louisiana.
She was a faithful member of the Shreveport First Church of the Nazarene.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Tommy Rabo and parents. She is survived by her sons, John Rabo (Jackie) and Bill Rabo (Lynette); daughter, Leslie Ivy (Kevin); sister, Sandy Dryden (Larry); brothers, Jerry Ashby (Lois), Bobby Ashby, Larry Ashby (Barbara) and Olen Ashby, Jr. (Betty); four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Honoring Mary Lou as pallbearers will be William Rabo, Jr., T. J. Rabo, III, Adam Rabo, Hayden Rabo, Khayman Price, Steve Grant and Steve Huber.