June 25, 1942 – April 22, 2018

 

NATCHEZ — Services for Barbara Jean Mooney Potter, 75, of Natchez, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Joan Gandy officiating.    

Burial will follow at Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at First Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Potter was born June 25, 1942, in New Orleans, the daughter of Gerald W. and Ethel Haaf Mooney.   She grew up in Bastrop, La., and attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, La., and the University of New Orleans. She married her beloved husband in New Orleans in 1976.  When they moved to Natchez in 1980, she retired from a full-time career to pursue a variety of projects, including writing, painting, animals, gardening and volunteer work.  She was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Historic Natchez Foundation, Natchez Garden Club, Mississippi Historical Society, Natchez-Adams County Humane Society and Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation in North Dakota.

Mrs. Potter was preceded in death by her parents.

Survivors include her husband of 41 years, Wayne A. Potter;  one daughter from her first marriage, Kathleen Donna Freeland Ratliff and husband, Huey C. Ratliff Jr., and their two daughters,  Brittany Ratliff and Erica Ratliff Tang and husband, Paolo, and great-granddaughter Isabella Linh; one stepdaughter, Christine Potter Hartley and husband, James J., and their three daughters, Shana, Hayden and Brennan Hartley; one stepson, Tod B. Potter and wife Stephanie, and their daughter, Hannah, and son, Levi; three sisters, Eileen Stewart and husband John, Kathleen Boyd and Nelda Watson and husband, Ray; one brother, Gerald W. Mooney Jr. and wife, Yupin; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Huey Ratliff Jr., Tod Potter, James Hartley, Paolo Tang, Michael Furrow and David Paradise.

Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Caldwell Jr., Benny Jeansonne, Craig Bradford, Vidal Davis, Robert Latham, John Junkin and John Schwager.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Presbyterian Church, the Natchez-Adams County Humane Society or Historic Natchez Foundation.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at lairdfh.com.