Nina Faye Giddings

A private graveside service celebrating the life of Nina Faye Giddings, 90, will be held Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Thomas Wren Cemetery with Bro. Wiley Cole officiating.  The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM, Friday, June 2, 2023, at the Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Coushatta.

Mrs. Giddings was born on May 3, 1933, in Martin, LA to John and Ola Hunter and passed June 1, 2023, in Coushatta, LA.

Mrs. Giddings was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Fred Giddings, Sr.; children, Lloyd Louis Hoover, Carolyn Dial, Shirley Miller, Sue Palmer, and Buddy Giddings; and siblings, Jimmy Ray Hunter, Ruth Fuqua, and Mildred New.

Left to cherish her memory are her children, Fred “Bubba” Giddings, Jr., and wife, Bertha, Cynthia Smith and husband, Gene, Freda Dupree and husband, Randall, Kathy Smith, and Brenda Youngblood and husband, John; sisters, Ella Rene Parrish and JoAnne Bishop; brother, John Marvin Hunter; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and friends.

Pallbearers will be Trey Giddings, Will Giddings, Clint Young, Ryan Dupree, Gary Hoover, Philip Kay and Shea Youngblood.  Honorary pallbearers will be her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.