Dessie Campbell Fulton Scimmons, age 80, of Bunkie

Funeral Services for Dessie Campbell Fulton Scimmons will be Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Triumph Baptist Church with Rev. Gregory Craig officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie.
Visitation will be at Mt. Triumph Baptist Church on Saturday, September 24, 2016 from 9 - 10:45 a.m.
Dessie Campbell Fulton Scimmons, age 80, of Bunkie, passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2016 at the Tri-Community Nursing Home in Lebeau, LA. She is preceded in death by her parents, Harriet Griffin Campbell and Ernest Campbell, Sr.; her daughter, Brenda Fulton; her son, Clyde Fulton; six brothers and one sister. She lived among us as "one who went about doing good", always putting Christ first in everything she did, leaning heavily on the Lord.
Mourning her departure, yet cherishing the beautiful memory of her love and devotion are her husband, Algia Scimmons of Bunkie; her daughgter, Wanda Denise Fulton of Bunkie; her two sons, Raymond Fulton, Jr. (Betty) of Bunkie and Charles Fulton and his wife, Julie, of Collinsville, IL; her three step-daughters, Shelia Hewett of Houston, Sherry Frank of Dallas, TX and Sylvia Scimmons of California; her step-son, Terry Wayne Scimmons of Houston, TX; sixteen grandchildren; six great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.