Services to honor the life of Mr. Frank H. Long, 84, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, August 17, 2020, at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home, officiated by Father Karl Daigle. Interment will follow in Hill Crest Memorial Park. The family will receive guests at the funeral home on Sunday evening from 5-6:30 p.m. with a rosary to begin at 6:30 p.m.
Frank was born on March 17, 1936, in Coushatta, Louisiana to parents, Howard and Ruby Long and passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
He was a hard working man, having began his career with Riley Beaird at the young age of 17. Frank saw all the many changes of the company he worked for, and retired from Beaird Industries after a long career of 44 years and 10 months.
Frank loved the outdoors and enjoyed gardening, fishing, and hunting. But more than any hobby, he enjoyed and loved his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren most of all.
He is preceded in death by his sister, Ruby Mae Allen; and his parents. He leaves behind to cherish his memory, his wife of 61 years, Mrs. Gracie Long; his sons, Danny and wife Vicki; and Randy and wife Deanna; grandchildren, Brian; Jeremy and wife Gwen, Jonathan and wife Jayde, Hunter, and Darbi; along with his great-grandchildren, Nicholas, Avery, and Fisher.
Frank's pallbearers will be his grandsons, Brian, Jeremy, Jonathan, and Hunter Long; and Charles "Peanut" Franklin, and Patrick Hill.
*a tribute by Jeremy Long
"I knew today would come eventually. . .I just hoped that it never would. . . My Pawpaw "Frank Long" passed away this morning. He was literally the kindest, most loving and caring person I knew. the last of a dying generation, who had more integrity in one finger than anyone left here today. He showed me how to skin my first deer, and when I shot my first squirrel, and shared countless life lessons through the years. He wasn't just my pawpaw, he was my best friend. He will deeply missed."
