Lincoln County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....PESNELL, LEON April 17, 2014 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Brown rootsgirl36@gmail.com April 24, 2014, 3:11 pm Ruston Daily Leader - April 22, 2014 LEON PESNELL Graveside services for Leon Pesnell, age 82, were held Saturday, April 19, 2014 at Alabama Baptist Church Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Ronnie Flurry, nephew officiating. Leon was born June 30, 1931 in Lincoln Parish and died at North Louisiana Medical Center on April 17, 2014 after a short illness due to complications from cancer. Leon had a career as a long distance truck driver. He began his career with Paul M. Davison Trucking as one of his first drivers in the late 1950's and continued to work for many years for Davison Transport. Later in life he made friends in a three state area selling his hand-made wares he made in his handle mill in Simsboro. He loved being in his mill all day making wood handles for tools that in a throwaway society are hard to find. He worked his mill and traveled with his goods until he was diagnosed just before Christmas 2013 with cancer. Leon along with his wife and children lived for brief times in Washington State, but always returned home to Simsboro. He was a man that kept to himself, but yet had many friends. In years past, he loved to pick on his old guitar and sing for or with anyone that would listen. He and his wife Billie Madge were always more than generous to family and friends with anything they had and always insisted when visitors left they take something from the garden. Leon is preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Maggie Pesnell, brothers William, Lawrence, Velton, Merle and Saxton Pesnell. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Billie Madge Woodard Pesnell, daughter Judy Pesnell, and three sons, Ferrell Pesnell and wife Ann, Greg Pesnell, Tim Pesnell and wife Robin, special nieces and nephew, Joyce Ann Huntington and David Williams, along with longtime friends Sonny Fields and Tim Babcock. Leon is also survived by one sister, Elvia Flurry of El Dorado, AR and numerous other nieces and nephews. He leaves behind 3 grandchildren, Jessica, Joseph and Micheal Pesnell, and 2 great-grandchildren, Torrian Pearson and Rayanna Pesnell. Pallbearers will be Clyde Pesnell, Jerry Baker, Dennis Whitten, Trace Talbert, Randy Callaway and Torrish Pearson. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/lincoln/obits/p/pesnell2602nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/lafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb