Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, August 11, 2022, at Mount Zion M.B. Church in Redwood. Interment will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home.

Visitation will be Wednesday from 2 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home with the family present from 6 until 7 p.m. and at the church on Thursday from 10 a.m. until the hour of service.

 

Mr. Ragan, a lifelong resident of Redwood, passed away on August 5, at his home.

 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ora Lee Brown Ragan; a daughter, Rhonda Ragan; a son, Coleman Ragan; his parents, Gabriel Ragan and Mary Branch; three brothers, and six sisters.

 

Survivors include two sons, Melvin Allen Ragan and Lewis Ragan, both of Vicksburg; three daughters, Jacqueline Ragan and Earnestine Ragan Sisney, both of Vicksburg, and Shirley Ragan Torregano of Slidell. LA; two sisters, Lela Lewis and Cora Foster, both of Redwood, 21 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, and a number of other relatives and friends.