“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come share you master’s happiness!” Matthew 25:21.

BATON ROUGE — Graveside services for Barbara Pichnic Culotta, 84, of Baton Rouge and Lake Concordia, who died Thursday, April 7, 2016, at her residence, will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Greenoaks Cemetery with the Rev. David Goza officiating.

Services are under the direction of Greenoaks Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 3 to 4 p.m. at Jefferson Baptist Church in Baton Rouge and from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at 879 Louisiana 568 in Ferriday.

Mrs. Culotta was born in Cameron, La.

She moved to Baton Rouge with her husband, Joseph Culotta, she worked as a medical technologist and managed medical technology laboratories until she retired at 73. “Barb” as she was affectionately called by her husband and friends, was very talented and had many interests. She was an excellent seamstress, artist, knitted Christmas stockings for all her family members and was renowned for her cooking abilities. Barbara was a member of First Baptist Church in Ferriday for the last four years. Before that, she was a member of Jefferson Baptist Church and earlier taught Sunday school at First Baptist of Baton Rouge for 20 years. As a civic minded woman, she belonged to several women’s organizations including The Quota International of Baton Rouge, PEO and The Women’s Club of Baton Rouge. Above all, she was devoted to her faith and her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters and one brother.

Survivors include her husband of 62 years, Joseph Culotta; one son, Kenneth Culotta and wife, Catherine, of Maple Grove, Minn.; and two daughters, Karen Culotta Stubbs and husband, Kenneth, of Lake Concordia and Kimberly Culotta Stewart and husband, Nash, of Doha, Qatar.; 12 grandchildren, Nathaniel Stubbs and wife, Jessica, of Natchez, Andrew Stubbs and wife, Ashley, of Madison, Joanna Stubbs Dixon and husband, Billy, of Ridgeland, Julian Stubbs of Jackson, Alexander Stewart and wife, Monica, of Baton Rouge, Caroline Stewart of Baton Rouge, Claude Culotta and wife, Meg, of Apple Valley, Minn., Emily Culotta of Costa Mesa, Calif., Annie Culotta of Tempe, Ariz. and Harrison Culotta of San Diego, Calif.; five great-grandchildren, Jack Henry Stubbs and Jordan Stubbs of Natchez, Samantha Dixon of Ridgeland, Bryan Stubbs of Madison and Magnolia Culotta of Apple Valley; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Nathaniel Stubbs, Andrew Stubbs, Julian Stubbs, Alexander Stewart, Harrison Culotta, Billy Dixon, Nash Stewart and Kenneth Stubbs.

Honorary pallbearers will be Russell Culotta, James Culotta, Jackie Culotta and Leonard Culotta.

Memorials may be made to Jefferson Baptist Church 9135 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70809 or First Baptist Ferriday PO Box 386 Ferriday, LA 71334.

In her personal Bible study of Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 Barbara wrote, “Our hearts tell use we are fitted for eternity. The only thing that fits man is eternity. Temporal is meaningless without eternity. There is a God shaped vacuum in our souls.”

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1