Norma Jean Childress, 84, passed away from this life on March 15, 2024, in a local hospital. 

Jean will forever be remembered as a loving mother and grandmother. She loved to shop and loved spending times with her grandchildren. Jean was a dog lover and enjoyed watching murder mysteries on TV, and working the garage sale and estate sale circuit. She retired after many years as a receptionist in the detectives division of Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Department. 

She is preceded in death by her parents, Ewell Hopkins Allen and Nora Marie Neal Allen; children, Timothy Ray Childress and Ernest Roland Childress Jr.; siblings, Tommie Rhodes and Virginia Bonds, and special niece, Billie-Sue Farrow. 

Mrs. Childress leaves to cherish her memory her three daughters, Mitzi Foreman and husband, Mark, Gena Saucier and husband, Shawn, and Wendi Bustillo and husband, Ray; son, Ray Childress; grandchildren, Ernie Bustillo, Jenifer McComb, Kristina Bustillio, Mavy Ducote, Mark Foreman Jr., Shawna Drake, Jean Baptiste Saucier, Charlie Saucier, and Crystal Childress; 26 great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews. 

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in the chapel of Johnson & Brown Funeral Home in Iowa from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. A rosary will be prayed at 6 p.m.. Visitation will continue on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, from 8 a.m. until time of service at 10 a.m. in the chapel of Johnson and Brown Funeral Home in Iowa.  Burial will follow at Highland Memory Gardens. 

Memories and words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.lakesidefh.com.