Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 31, 2013, 11:00 am, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for Sallie W. Journee, 60, who passed away peacefully August 25, 2013 at Lafayette General Medical Center. Bishop Chris Wilson will conduct the funeral services. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
She was born in Wiggins, Miss. on August 7, 1953 to Josephine and David Wallace. Sallie was the youngest of nine siblings and was reared in Ocean Springs, Miss.
Survivors include her husband William "Bill" Journee; three daughters, Tina Lauve, Tonya Ross, and Janice Kimble; three sisters; Mary Lou Fore, Carrie Campbell, and Jeannette Massey; two brothers, James David Wallace and Kenneth Wallace; eight grandchildren, Gerald, Wayne, Angel, Jeremiah, Kaylynn, Mikal, Tiffany and Dylan; three great-grandchildren, Adrianna, Kaitlyn, and Trenton; and her two special sisters-in-law, Loretta Myrick and Myrliss Wallace.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Josephine and David Wallace; two brothers, Ervin Myrick and E.J. Wallace; one sister, Patricia Ann Wallace; and infant granddaughter, Christiana Maria.
The family requests that visitation be held in church on Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. until the service begins at 11:00 am. The address is: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 116 East Bluebird Dr., Lafayette, LA 70508.