Courney McGuffee

Published 12:00 am Friday, May 25, 2007

Services for Courtney Scott McGuffee, 21, of Harrisonburg, will be 2 p.m. today at Harrisonburg First Baptist Church with Bro. Reed Terry officiating.

Burial will follow at Heard Cemetery, in Manifest, under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home, Jonesville.

Courtney was born July 14, 1985, in Natchez, the daughter of Janie Cater and husband, Howard, and Renard McGuffee and wife, Annette. She was a graduate of Harrisonburg High School and a graduate of Louisiana Tech with a degree in Early Childhood Education. She was a member of Harrisonburg First Baptist Church. Courtney was Louisiana Tech’s 2006 Homecoming Queen, a member of Phi Mu, President of SLECEA “Students of Louisiana Early Childhood Education Association” and Orientation Student Leader at Louisiana Tech.

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She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, M. T. “Huey” Womack and paternal grandfather, Ronald R. McGuffee.

Survivors include her mother, Janie Cater and husband, Howard, of Harrisonburg; father, Renard McGuffee and wife, Annette, of Tyler, Texas; brother, Clay McGuffee of Harrisonburg; maternal grandmother, Ann Womack of Jonesville; fiance’ Klark Kent of Oklahoma; paternal grandmother, Irma McGuffee of Enterprize, La.; stepbrother, Lee Cater of Lafayette; stepsisters, Laurel Crouch and husband, Larry, and son Jimmy, all of Jonesville, Allison Allen and Sarah Beth Allen, both of Tyler, Texas; a number of cousins, aunts and uncles.

Pallbearers will be John Womack, Wesley Womack, Jake Womack, Webb Womack, Ron Philley, Jeff McIntyre, Nick Nicholson, Terry Bacon, Hunter Nicholson, Jesse Ainsworth, Matt Drake and Steven Blaney.

Donations may be made to Children’s Miracle Network.

To leave an online condolence for the family, please visit www.youngsfh.com.