Obituary

Gloria Lenoir Rimes

November 23, 1933 - April 03, 2021

Gloria Lenoir Rimes, age 87 and a resident of Franklinton, LA., passed away on April 3, 2021 at the Camelot Community Care Center in Ponchatoula, LA.

A graveside service with a visitation will be held Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from 1:30 PM until services at 2 PM at Magnolia Cemetery in Magnolia, MS. Dr. Woody Dwight Rimes will be officiating. Hartman-Jones Funeral Home of McComb is in charge of arrangements.

Gloria was born in Magnolia, MS., on November 23, 1933 to the late, John D. and Mary Brumfield Cooper.

Gloria was a retired Bookkeeper having worked for many local businesses over the years and she was a member of the First Baptist Church of Franklinton, LA. She was a wonderful and loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister who dearly loved her family and friends. She enjoyed sports and was known to have kept any and all notes and pictures from her family (they were her treasures). She will be sadly and deeply missed by those who knew and loved her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, Otis Lenoir and her second husband, Dwight R. Rimes, one son Robert O. "Bobby" Lenoir, one brother Danny Cooper and one aunt, Beatrice Brumfield.

She is survived by her two sons, Woody Dwight Rimes PhD and his wife Julie and John Scott Rimes PhD and his wife Deborah; one daughter Mary D. Lenoir, daughter in-law, Mona Lenoir, one brother Billy Ray Cooper and his wife Mildred, one sister Lena Faye Ainsworth; eleven grandchildren Clint Simmons (Katrinia), Spencer Rimes, Cheslee Pickett (Jared), Colby Rimes (Abbey), Caleb Rimes (Kelsey), Angel Cothern (Steven), Jordan Rimes MD (Zach Smith), Allyson Rimes, Carson Rimes, Robert Lenoir and Chasidy Lenoir; ten great-grandchildren with numerous nieces and nephews.

In Lieu of flowers donations may be sent to the First Baptist Church of Franklinton 950 Self St. Franklinton, LA 70438