Nolan Winifred Pierce age 88 of Angleton, Texas

Funeral Services for Nolan Winifred Pierce will be Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery in Port Barre, LA.

Visitation will be at Melancon Funeral Home on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. until service time.

Mr. Pierce, age 88, of Angleton, TX, formerly of Bunkie, passed away on Thursday, October 20, 2016 at the Angleton Hospital. He was a US Navy veteran. He was a retired oil rig supervisor. After his retirement he worked for seventeen years for the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office, a job he really enjoyed. He was a kind, loving husband and father and a very gentle soul. He was preceded in death by his wife, Rose Stelly Pierce; two sisters, Billy Joyce Pierce and Lucille Gonsalves and two sons, Bobby Higdon and Mike Smith.

He is survived by by five daughters, Pam Sheehan and husband, Jimmy, of Silt, CO, Paula Kay Spicer and husband, Jimmy, of Carrollton, TX, Faye Walker and husband, Sam, of Amite, LA, Gwen Slocum and husband, Bobby, of St. Landry and Gayla Murphy and husband, Luther, of Lake Jackson, TX; one son, Toby Pierce and wife, Peggy, of Victor, Idaho; three sisters, Jolene Johnson of Angleton, TX, Bessie Boone and husband, Bobby, of Angleton, TX and Peggy Sullivan of Corpus Christi, TX; twenty grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren.