Emma June Volentine Payne

Funeral services for Emma June Volentine Payne will be held Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. at Rose Neath Funeral Home Chapel in Minden, Louisiana. Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Minden, Louisiana. The family will receive friends from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Friday, September 12, 2025, at Rose Neath Funeral Home in Minden, Louisiana.

June was born on July 9, 1934, in Haynesville, Louisiana and went to her heavenly home on September 7, 2025, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Vernon “Jake” and Emma Flossie Kendrick Volentine, son, Ralph Everett Payne, and brother Robert N. Volentine (Shirley).

She is survived by her husband of 71 years, Everett Payne, daughter, Theresa Payne Keen (Kem), daughter-in-law, Donna Payne, brother, Jackie Volentine (Jerrie), grandchildren, Jennifer Huson, Meagan McElroy (Mike), Brock Hines, Ashley Davis, Catherine Payne, and Laura Payne, great-grandchildren, Jordan and Bailee Miller, Abigail & Emma Huson, Madalyn and Aubrey Poole, Mollie Jean McElroy, Ashlynn, Carson, and Kinsley Hines, Paige and Emily Davis, and Dawson Gish, great great-grandchildren, Jett and Avery Jackson, and Creed, Rowan, and Aticus Miller and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Many thanks and blessings to Dr. Mark Haynes and Dr. Scott Haynes at Claiborne Memorial Medical Center in Homer, Louisiana and all the wonderful nurses. The entire staff at willow Ridge Nursing Home Arcadia, Louisiana, Presbyterian Village Nursing Home, Homer, Louisiana, and St Joseph, Carpenter House Hospice in Shreveport, Louisiana.