Fannie Lee Griggs

Fannie Lee Griggs

Funeral services for Fannie Lee Griggs, beloved and well-known resident, will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at twelve p.m. in the afternoon.  The services will be held at Morehouse Baptist Association Building on the Collinston Road.  Dr. Robert Gaines, Sr. will serve as the officiant.  The Interment will follow the services in Jerusalem Cemetery on the Oak Ridge Highway.  Family and friends are invited to share expressions at her wake services on Friday evening from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Loche's Mortuary Chapel.  To send flowers or words of condolence, or light a candle, kindly follow the directions to your left.

******Motorists are urged to turn on emergency flashers as we travel  to Jerusalem Cemetery.*****

"Color Her Love"

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing." 2 Timothy 4:7

On Tuesday, February 25, 1947, in the small north Louisiana village of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, Mamie Williams Griggs and John Griggs were blessed with a girl child.   They gave her the name Fannie Lee Griggs. There were, in fact, four other children born to this Griggs union:  Eula, John Willie, Jimmy,  and Neomi.

Fannie was a proud member of the Union High School Class of 1965.  Even as a young girl, she had a flair for creating beautiful dresses for the ladies in her family.  Some folks said she could make anything once she put her mind to it.  Ladies would call on her when they needed both style and a bit of flair.

When she was not creating fashionable clothing, Fannie loved to cook and grow flowers.  But, her greatest love was attending church.  They were members of Eudora Missionary Church.  Now Eudora had a choir and it was only right that Fannie would join the choir just like her big sister, Eula.  When she wasn't creating fashionable clothing or singing in the choir, she was  cooking.  And, if she wasn't creating fashionable garments, singing in the choir, or cooking, Fannie was planting flowers and watching the vibrant colors burst as they sprouted and took on characteristics of their own.

Fannie was a beloved mother to her three children: Sharon, Ebony, and Telly.   She is also survived by seven grandchildren. But her love for children encompassed more than just her children.  She was loved by so many. She was adored by so many.  Her deep dimpled smile could melt the hearts of folks reluctant to face life's trials and tribulations.   She did not mind, however, telling you how she felt on any given subject, whether you liked it or not.  Then she make you give her a hug.  That's just how she was. Fannie Lee Griggs was a true warrior who found goodness in people that some  didn't even  know they possessed.  She loved and was loved in return.  1 Corinthians 13:4-8 says "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boasts; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insists on its own way.....It does not rejoice at wrong doing but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things; believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."  This was Fannie Lee Griggs.  She gave without expecting anything in return.  This was Fannie Griggs.  "Color Her Love."

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