A retired
houseparent for the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home in Monroe
and a former pipe fitter for Plumbers and Steamfitters Un-ion
Local 198, he died at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 2001, at Lane
Memorial Hospital, Zachary. He was 70 and a native of Point
Pleas-ant, Mo. He was a U.S. Navy Sea-bee during the Korean
conflict. Visiting was at Baker Funeral Home, 6401 Groom Road,
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. Visiting at the funeral home from 9
a.m. until religious services in the chapel at 11 a.m. Saturday,
conducted by the Rev. John Rushing and the Rev. B.K. Miller.
Interment in Rose-lawn Memorial Park. Survived by his wife of 47
years, Betty Taylor Mizell, Zachary; three daughters and
sons-in-law, Donna and Mi-chael Duplessis, Prairieville, Lee Anne
and David Whittington, Zachary, and Joy and Craig McGinnis,
Ponder, Texas; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Robert and
Reeann Mizell, Baton Rouge, Russell and Melinda Mizell, Denham
Springs, and Mark Cheairs, Baton Rouge; a sister, Christine Odum,
Baton Rouge; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by his parents, Lonnie F. Mizell and Willie Lee
Haigler Mizell. Pallbearers will be member of the men’s Sunday
school class of First Baptist Church of Baker. He was a member of
First Baptist Church of Baker.
