Bailey Speights

Published 2:06 pm Tuesday, July 21, 2015

By Staff Reports

Funeral services were held Saturday, July 18, 2015, at Oakvale Baptist Church for Miss Bailey Lynn Speights, age 10, who passed away on July 1, in Louisville, KY. Interment followed at Oakvale Cemetery. Saulters Moore Funeral Home of Prentiss was in charge of all arrangements.

Rev. Eddie Myers officiated. Pallbearers were Cole Cripps, Bobby Smith, Cody LaBorde and Michael Arrito.

Bailey was born on June 5, 2005, in Metairie, LA. She was the daughter of Mr. Lance Speights of Hammond, LA, and Mrs. Stefanie Speights Romanyak of Haughton, LA. She had just finished her 4th year of elementary school and she loved all outdoor activities.

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She is survived by her mother & stepfather, Stefanie & Mike Romanyack of Haughton, LA; father & stepmother, Lance & Melissa Speights of Hammond, LA; two sisters, Aubrey Speights of Hammond and Keeley Neal of Haughton, LA; maternal grandparents, Greg & Kim Cripps of Pineville, LA; paternal grandparents, Johnnie Lynn Speights of Oakvale, MS, and Shelley Longworth of Hammond, LA; maternal greatgrandfather, Alfred Speights of Monticello, MS; and paternal great-grandmother, Janet Reno of Hammond, LA; paternal stepgrandparents, Allen & Carrie Joyce Cripps of Alexandra, LA, and Mike & Diane Romanyak of Attica, NY, and Jim & Lynette Hayes of Metairie, LA.

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