Funeral for Margie R. Rayburn will be 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, at Rose-Neath’s Bossier Chapel in Bossier City, La. Officiating will be the Rev. Charles Middleton. Interment will be at Rose-Neath Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. today at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Bossier City.
Margie was born Sept. 3, 1948, in Smackover, to Jim A. “Dude” Roe and Vida Hilborn Roe and died Feb. 15, 2015, in Shreveport, La. She was a diligent advocate for all children and their education. She volunteered in the PTA for more than 40 years. She began volunteering when her sons started school and continued even after their graduations. Margie was active in the schools they attended, as well as serving as Caddo District PTA president and Louisiana State PTA president.
She helped to begin the Operation A+ program and received the Shreveport’s KTBS “On Your Side” award. For her years of dedication to PTA, she was honored with the Distinguished Life Service Award for Caddo District, Louisiana State and the National PTA. Margie was also a member of the Lucile Caldwell Unit of the Louisiana Association of Parliamentarians and served as its president.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Margie is survived by her husband of 47 years, Mark Rayburn; her sons, Marshall Rayburn and Matthew Rayburn; her sisters, Lynda Bugh, Jimmie and her husband, Bobby Neal, Dianne and her husband, Mike Reynolds; and her dear friends, Betty and Barbara Helms.
Honoring Margie as pallbearers will be James “Jimbo” Brooks, Steve Chamberlain, Bobby Neal, Rob Neal, Jimmy Middleton and Clarence Ybos.
The family suggests memorials to the Caddo District PTA Scholarship Fund in memory of Margie Rayburn.