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Barbara Joan “Bobbie Jo” LaCaze Johnson Leyser
26 Jun 1937 – 8 Aug 2024
| Birth | 26 Jun 1937 |
| Death | 8 Aug 2024 |
| Cemetery | Blue Branch Cemetery Pitkin , Vernon Parish , Louisiana , USA |
| Added by | Michael Harrison on 12 Aug 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/273528821 |
Bio
Barbara Joan Johnson Leyser, who passed from this life and finished her earthly race on August 8, 2024, at the age of 87 years 1 month and 13 days old. Bobbie, as most people knew her by was born on June 26, 1937, to Joe and Bessie LaCaze in Cravens, LA. She married Burns Johnson, Sr. and they settled down in Westwego, LA. They began attending the Frist United Pentecostal Church of Gretna where she received the gift of the Holy Ghost. She loved the Lord and enjoyed working and serving in the church. She and her family made and sold thousands of bags of peanut brittle through the years. Together, they were also responsible for cleaning the church. She also sang in the choir, knocked doors, worked on the bus route and taught Sunday School for many years. She started a Sunday School extension in her home where she would teach on Sunday afternoons every Sunday. She would often have up to 50 children in her home at times. She touched many lives. She was the Sunday School Superintendent, the Ladies Auxiliary leader and taught many Search for Truth bible studies over the years. She also helped with church fundraisers by making her delicious chicken dinners. Besides being a servant for the Lord, she was also a prayer warrior, and she believed in the power of prayer. She believed in her God and knew he was and is able to do anything. Even until the end of her battle with lung cancer she still spoke of the goodness of God, she still believed and trusted him for her healing. She loved her family, her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and the rest of her loved ones as well. She may not be well known to a lot of people here on this earth, but in the spiritual world. She was a mighty woman of God. She was a prayer warrior and prayed daily for her family and church family. She is preceded in death by her husband Burns Johnson, Sr., parents Joe and Bessie LaCaze, brothers, Milford LaCaze, Curtis LaCaze, Caston LaCaze, Douglas LaCaze, John LaCaze, and sisters, Hunky Bray, Hazel Green, and Gleta Deer. Those left to cherish her memory are her children, her brother, 17 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, 7 great-great grandchildren, and a slew of nieces, nephews and extended family including the honorary Flathers family.
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- Hazel LaCaze Green 1919–2007 FaG
- Joseph Milford LaCaze 1921–1956 FaG
- James Curtis LaCaze 1928–2014 FaG
- Charles Caston LaCaze Sr 1930–1994 FaG
- Gleta Virginia LaCaze Dear 1932–2016 FaG
- Vernon Douglas LaCaze Sr 1940–2013 FaG
- John Phillip LaCaze 1944–2016 FaG
- Alvin Edward LaCaze 1948–2025 FaG
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