Bonnie Elouise Ratcliff Jabour Evans

Published 12:00 am Saturday, January 9, 2016

Bonnie Elouise Ratcliff Jabour Evans died Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 at Brookdale-Ridgeland in Ridgeland. She was 80.

Born in Rayville, La., she was the daughter of Marion Lafayette Ratcliff and Nellie Margaret Purvis Ratcliff.  She grew up in Rayville.

Bonnie attended the Sisters of Mercy School of Nursing in Vicksburg, where she received her RN degree. She worked with home health services and at local area hospitals until her retirement in 1994. She was a member of St. Paul Catholic Church.

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She is survived by Jamie Jabour (Sherry), Jody Jabour (Joyce), Angie Hembree (George), David Jabour (Kim), Shawn Evans, Bob A. Evans Jr. (Annette), Greg Evans (Lori), Therese Evans Winchel (Terry) and Jay Evans (Jeni); and daughters-in-law, Susan Jabour and Dedi Evans; her siblings, Evelyn Anthony, Juanita Stewart, Louise Gray, Dorothy Bodiford, Regina Smithson, Lillian Morgan, Rosa Riggs, and Troy Ratcliff; and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Will Jabour and Robert “Bobby” Evans; sons, Paul Jabour and Joe Evans; and siblings Tommy Ratcliff, Marion “Doc” Ratcliff, and Lloyd Ratcliff.

Funeral services will be Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at 11 a.m. at Riles Funeral Home with burial at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be Monday from 9 a.m. until the service.

Memorials may be made to Vicksburg Catholic School, 1900 Grove St.  Vicksburg, MS 39183.

Pallbearers will be Michael Jabour, Nathan Jabour, Joseph Jabour, Adam Hembree, Zachary Hembree, Nicholas Hembree, Matthew Brown ,Terry Winschel, and Lindsey Case.