Alda Etoyce Free

PLEASANT HILL, LA - Funeral services honoring the life of Alda Etoyce "Nanny" Free, 86, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 16, 2018, at Spring Ridge Baptist Church in Pleasant Hill, LA with Rev. Marshall Ingle, Rev. Danny Forsythe, Rev. John Harp, and Rev. Hoye Leach officiating. Burial will follow at Spring Ridge Cemetery in Pleasant Hill, LA. The family will receive friends at Spring Ridge Baptist Church on Friday, June 15, 2018, from 5:30 p.m. until time of service. Etoyce was born September 8, 1931, in Pleasant Hill, LA to Willie Jack and Lela Litton Brown and passed away on June 14, 2018, in Shreveport, LA. She was an insurance agent for KilPatrick Insurance Company for many years where she made many friends throughout her career. She was a loving mother, and grandmother. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Loy M. "Pappy" Free, Sr.; brothers, Cloyd Brown and Troyce Brown; niece, Kay Brown and great grandsons, Landon Parks and Jason Cryer. Those left behind to cherish her memory is her son, Loy "Buddy" Free, Jr. and wife Connie; daughters, Debora Langston and husband Tommy, Jackie Parks and husband Kenny; 13 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and six great-great grandchildren. The family would like to include as adopted in love to the family Dr. Robert Hernandez, Ms. Judy Rangel, Heather, Mason, Josh Harrell and family. Honoring Etoyce as pallbearers will be Chris Friday, Andy Friday, Jody Free, Joseph Free, Justin Free, Danny Forsythe, and Randy Merle Crawford. The family would like to express a special thanks to Beth Springer, the staff of AIME Hospice Care, and the staff at Willis Knighton Pierremont.