Funeral services for Billye Faye Cook Herring, 87, of Farmerville were held at 1:00pm, Saturday, July 8, 2017 at Farrar Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Kurt Auger and Rev. Dave Permenter officiating. Burial followed in Grand Cane Cemetery in Grand Cane, La. under the direction of Farrar Funeral Home in Farmerville. Billye Faye Cook Herring was born December 14, 1929 in Grand Cane, La. and went to be with our Heavenly Father on July 4, 2017, surrounded by family and friends in Farmerville, La. She graduated from Grand Cane High School and attended L.S.U. from 1946 to 1948. On November 11, 1950, she married the love of her life, Alfred “Bo” Herring. Shortly afterwards, she followed him to Honolulu, HI., where he was stationed in the U.S. Navy. They came back to Louisiana where daughter, Susan, was born in 1957 while Bo attended Louisiana College in Pineville. In 1961, son Craig was born while Bo was coaching in Springhill. Billye and Bo landed in Farmerville where he coached and Billye retired as a Social Worker for the State of Louisiana. She was a loving wife to Bo for 60 years when he passed in 2011, a loving mother to Susan and Craig, and grandmother to Sarah Ashley.She is survived by her daughter, Susan Herring David & husband, Randy; son, Craig Herring; one granddaughter, Sarah Ashley Koeninger; siblings, Lodwrick M. Cook of Los Angeles, Ca., Sarah Cook Mitchell of Hammond, La., William Huckabay Cook & wife, Joyce of Grand Cane, La.; and a host of loving nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and nephews. Visitation was scheduled for Friday, July 07, 2017 from 5:00pm – 7:00 at Farrar Funeral Home Chapel. The family would like to thank her wonderful friend and care giver, Doris Fields, nurse, Jennia Adams of La. Hospice and all of the wonderful staff at Arbor Rose for the care they gave her. Online messages for the family may be left at farrarfuneralhomeonline.com.
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