Edmonds Funeral Home
Jonesboro, LA

Funeral services for Mr. Edwin C. Culpepper of Jonesboro, LA will be at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, December 28, 2005 in the Chapel of Edmonds Funeral Home in Jonesboro, LA. The family will conduct the service. Burial will follow in the Gayla Traina Memorial Cemetery in Jonesboro under the direction of Edmonds Funeral Home.

Visitation will be at Edmonds Funeral Home from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, December 27, 2005.

Mr. Culpepper, age 93, joyfully departed this life for his heavenly home on December 23, 2005. He was retired from Stone Container Corporation. He was also retired from crop farming but still had a tree farm operation at the time of his death. For many years he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Jackson Parish Farm Bureau. Until his health failed him, he was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro where he participated in numerous activities, including mission trips.

Mr. Culpepper is survived by his wife of seventy-two years, Mrs. Myrtle Perry Culpepper of Jonesboro, LA; four sons, Rev. Howard Culpepper and wife Patricia of Huntsville, AL, Dr. Everett Vance Culpepper and wife Bonnie of Myrtle Creek, OR, Bobby Culpepper and wife Beth of Jonesboro, LA, and Mike Culpepper of West Monroe, LA; three daughters, Ms. Lynette Sandidge of Tallulah, LA, Mrs. Nelda Jane Oliver and husband Dr. Paxton Oliver of Calhoun, LA and Mrs. Margaret Brumfield and husband Pat of Jonesboro, LA. Mr. Culpepper is also survived by too many grandchildren and great grandchildren to count.

Grandsons Todd Culpepper, J.J.Culpepper, Paxton Oliver, Robert Lynn Tolar, Jeff Culpepper and Paul Oliver will serve as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, memorial may be sent to the Family Life Center Fund at the First Baptist Church, 500 Cooper Ave., Jonesboro, LA 71251.