Lavada Kay Richardson

Lavada Kay Richardson, age 63, of Wickes, Arkansas passed away Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Texarkana.

She was born December 9, 1951 in Quitaque, Texas to the late English Woodrow Baker and the late Alma Hazel Cornelius Baker. She was married to Jimmy Richardson for many happy years and was a waitress and homemaker by profession.

Lavada was a very loving, caring, kind-hearted person. She gave even when she didn’t have to give and she helped everyone in her community that needed it.

She donated her paintings to most of the benefits that were given in her community and attended each one. She just wanted to help everyone she could, cause she felt that’s what God wanted her to do.  She helped her older sister and Mother start the Western Arkansas Arts & Crafts Association, aka WAACA. Lavada always set up a stand at the Vandervoort 4^th of July Picnic. She sold t-shirts, cotton candy, and sometimes snow cones. Lavada didn’t like little children to do without so she gave away more cotton candy than she sold. Any time a child came by her stand and the parents didn’t have the money to buy the cotton candy she said “that’s ok, you can have some anyways.”  She loved children, and she carried Smartees candies around in her pocket and her purse. She would give them to all the little kids she saw.

Lavada enjoyed doing Genealogy and traced her family back quite a ways. She loved reading, especially her Bible, painting, soap making, flowers, and plants. She loved the outdoors, period. Lavada loved the Lord and tried her best to live her life according to His Will. She loved always and said she could never have gotten her boys raised without the Ten Commandments.  She loved country music and dancing. But most of all she loved her boys, Jimmie, and her family.

She was a loving and kind wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend to all who knew her. She will be dearly missed by all.

She is survived by husband, Jimmie Richardson of Wickes, Arkansas; sons, Greg Moon and wife DeLana of Wilburton, Oklahoma, Shane Moon and wife Michelle of Yelm, Washington; step-daughter, Angela Richardson and David; grandchildren, Kelbie, Kaila, Paxton, Tori and Tyler Moon; two special girls, Rachael Lyles and Ceirrah Baily; brothers and sisters, Anita and Dale Blair of Wickes, Arkansas, Kathy and Randy Kosier of Gulfport, Mississippi, Larry and Joan Baker of Mena, Arkansas, Freddie and Diane Baker of Vandervoort, Arkansas, Carla and Steve Wolcott of DeQueen, Arkansas.

She was preceded in death by her parents, English Woodrow and Alma Hazel Baker; siblings, Lora Mae Barrick, Franklin D. Baker, English Calvin Baker, and Gwinn Marvella Roan.

Funeral service will be Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 10:00 a.m., at the Nazarene Church in Cove, Arkansas with Brother Donnie Jewell officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Cove, under the direction of Beasley Wood Funeral Home of Mena.

Family and friends visitation will be Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Beasley Wood.

Pallbearers will be Steve Wolcott, Freddie Baker, DeWayne Baker, Cecil Roan, Clay Davis, and Christopher Page.

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