Lois Cooley Hollie was born Jan. 24, 1944, and passed Jan. 12, 2025, at the age of 80. Lois loved to bake and cook. She cooked for the DeQuincy Rotary Club and was in the catering business for 44 years. She worked in the nursery at the DeQuincy Methodist Church and owned her own “Lois’s Kiddie Kollege”. She worked with the Beauregard Parish School Board as an aide for their special needs bus riders. Lois loved flowers, helping with Bible School crafts, but most of all, she loved spending time with her family and attending family get togethers. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

She is survived by her children, Doralyn Cooley Rodriguez, Lealon “Buddy” Cooley Jr., David Cooley and wife, Leigh Ann, Marcie Koonce and husband, Wesley; grandchildren, Kourtni Verret and husband, Jessie, Katie Saltzman and husband, Matt, Kelsey Cooley and fiancé Wacey Manuel, Samantha Koonce and Sawyer Koonce; 14 great-grandchildren; siblings, Judy Bennett, Jimmy Kendall and wife, Gayle, Joan Hunt, Winston Kendall and wife, Cassy and Jerry Lee along with numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Lealon Cooley; parents, George E. Kendall and wife, Selest Vige Kendall; siblings, JT Kendall and Mary Lee Kendall; brother in-law, John Hunt; sister in-law, Janice Kendall.

The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 at Riley Smith and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at The Pentecostal Church of DeQuincy. The Rev. Mark Schultz and the Rev. Mark Norman will be officiating. Interment will follow at Hyatt Cemetery.

Arrangements were handled by Riley Smith & Sons Funeral Home, 1810 W. 4th Street, DeQuincy, La.