No public services will be conducted at this time. He will be interred in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery.
He is survived by his sons, Vaughn Bean and DaJuan Sanders; daughter, Michelle Durden; eleven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brothers, Earl, Jr., Glenn, Murl and Darren Sanders; sisters, Diane Jones, Linda Williams, Brenda, Melinda, Mildred and Rosalie Sanders; and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rosalie Zilton Sanders; parents, Earl, Sr. and Mercedes "Dorothy" Burdis-Sanders.
Arrangements entrusted to Jones Funeral Home of Houma.