Obituary of Lillian Starnes

Funeral services for Lillian Noble Starnes age 88 of Columbia will be held 1:00 PM Tuesday March 29, 2016 from the Columbia chapel of Riser Funeral Home with Brother Dean Love officiating. Interement will follow in the Adams Cemetery at Kelly. Visitation will be on Monday March 28, 2016 at the funeral home from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Lillian Willie Noble Starnes was born on December 7, 1927 at Olla, LA to the union of her parents Robert Noble and Bobbie Lee Coates Noble. She passed from this life on Saturday March 26, 2016 at the Haven Nursing Center in Columbia following an extended illness. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her husband Vernon B. Starnes , by her brother: Delbert Noble and by her grandson: James McDowell. Left to cherish her memory are four daughters: Evelyn Peppers of Olla, Helen Braddock and husband Lawrence of Grayson, Verna Bertrand and husband Preston of Olla, and Wanda Sweeney and husband Lawrence of Muskogee, OK; her sister: Potsy Allen of Pineville; and her grandchildren: Angela Lyons, Jason Peppers, Ray Braddock, Stephen Braddock, Jeremy Richards, Jerry Richards, Jennifer Farmer, Chris Starnes, and Daniel McDowell; and twenty great-grandchildren. Serving as pallbearers will be Jason Peppers, Daniel McDowell, Jeremy Richards, Ray Braddock and Stephen Braddock,Jerry Richards. Honorary pallbearers include Chris Starnes. Online registry/condolences: riserfuneralhomes.com