Eva Lucille Law Gamble was born April 22, 1923 to Lon and Ruth Stewart Law in the Oak Grove community (now Stanley) and passed away peacefully in her home in Woodsprings Community out of Grand Cane on December 12, 2020.
Services were conducted at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Mansfield, LA. On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. with Bro. Wayne Roberts and Bro. Dean Register officiating. Visitation was held Tuesday, December 15, 2020 from 5:00-7:00. Please practice social distancing and wear masks.
Mom grew up just outside Grand Cane on Wagner Road (now Blunt Road) and moved with her parents to the Woodsprings Community when she was thirteen. She attended school at Grand Cane High School and out of her graduating class of 1940, three had remained good friends and reached the 97 year old mark; Eva, Janie Bond Griffith, and Bessie Bee Gamble Atkins. Mom loved Grand Cane and participated in and supported the activities and efforts to improve and preserve the history of the town and school.
After moving to Woodsprings, Mom met Herman Gamble and in 1940 they married and shared 57 years before his death in 1997. Mom and Dad worked to build a cattle farm and raise a family on the land purchased during their marriage. Their three children, a grandson, and his family all live on and operate the family farm. Mom (Mamaw) loved having four generations working together to continue a dream she and Dad shared.
Mom was a member of Woodsprings Baptist Church for 84 years where she was song leader, teacher, WMU director, missions leader, and church clerk. She was the lead singer in a trio with her daughters for many years with her mom, Ruth Law, a very gifted musician, at the piano. She was a retired school bus driver for DeSoto Parish and loved all of her school children that rode Miss Eva’s bus. She also helped her Mom (Miss Law) cook for Grand Cane High School and Central School. Mom has always loved to cook using many of her mom’s and her motherin-laws recipes. She also loved working in the garden, planting flowers, sewing, quilting and crocheting, and tending to the animals. She loved her friends dearly and always showed kindness and love to everyone. Most of all she enjoyed her family. She dealt out discipline when necessary, but always loved us unconditional. She endured the hard times, rejoiced in the good ones, and did it with grace. Mom inspired us with her quiet strength, her grounded faith, and endless love and blessed our lives in amazing ways.
Left to cherish Mom’s memory are daughters Eva Lois Gamble and Linda Gamble; son Herman Gamble and wife Deb; grandson Blake Gamble and wife Casey; great-grandson Tucker and greatgranddaughters Allison and Grayson and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends. We would like to acknowledge these special friends for all their love and friendship to Mom: Joy Johnson, Marjorie Heath, Martha Murphy, Virginia Campbell, Pam Thomas and special niece Margie Bull.
Honoring Eva as pallbearers were Phil Stewart, Butch Oswalt, Will Gamble, Jacob Gamble, Greg Cowdin, and John Bull. Serving as honorary pallbearers were John Paul Lawson, Mark Gamble, and Dudley Sims.