Raymond E. Thurston

Raymond Ernest Thurston July 21, 1936 - August 8, 2021   Raymond Ernest Thurston, loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and neighbor. He served as an electrician in the Navy and devoted nearly 60 years of his life as a bookkeeper for Lambert Gravel.   He is survived by his grandchildren Ryan Knippers and Sarah Goodin, great-grandchildren Kyler, Parker and Hayden Goodin, stepchildren Charlotte Ducote and fiancé Larry Free, Joan Deglandon and husband Paul and Walter Johnson Jr. and fiancée Michelle Gilbert, step-grandchildren Weldon and Kaitlyn Deglandon, Reilly, Maddie Jo, Maddison and Mya Ducote, Abbigail Lucius, Chloe Harrison, Nicolas Free and step great-grandchildren Austyn and Deltyn Lucius.   He is preceded in death by his wife Paula Booker Thurston, children Cathy Parson and Kenneth Thurston, and his parents Frank and Emma Thurston.   The family will hold a private memorial at their home in Hessmer on a later date.   Arrangements are under the direction of Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Home of Marksville.