Leslie Carl Vance Jr.

Published 12:55 pm Thursday, June 26, 2025

June 27, 1933 – June 23, 2025

NATCHEZ – Services for Leslie Carl “Sonny” Vance Jr., 91, of Natchez, who died on Monday, June 23, 2025, in Natchez, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at St. Mary Basilica with Father Aaron Williams officiating.

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

Visitation will be held from 10 until 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at St. Mary Basilica.

Mr. Vance was born on June 27, 1933, in Natchez, the son of Leslie Carl Vance Sr. and Margurite Cory Vance.

He graduated from Vidalia High School in 1951. In the early 1950’s he served in the United States Army.  He attended the Louisiana Technical School of Engineering. In 1978, he married Joan Viccinelli Vance.

Mr. Vance was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Joan Vance; son, Bryan E. Byrne Sr.; sons-in-law, Butch Sober and Terry McIntire; and brother-in-law, James Minor.

Survivors include his children, John P. Byrne and wife, Charlotte, Karen Burgess and husband, Mike, Brenda Rasco and husband, Chuck, Debra Vance Sober, and Laurie Vance McIntire; grandchildren, Jack and Mary Kate Byrne, Bryan Edwin Byrne Jr., Christopher and Emily Rasco, Cory and Allison Sober; sister, Elizabeth Vance Minor; brother, Lewis J. Vance; and many nieces, nephews and cousins and friends.

Pallbearers will be Edwin Byrne, Jack Byrne, Fred Parker, Christopher Rasco, Chuck Rasco, and Nicholas Webb.

Honorary pallbearer will be Johnny Junkin.

The family would like to extend heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Magnolia Village, Specialty Hospice, Comfort Care and Respite Services, Mary Davis, Deloris Anderson, Twana Sewell, and Krystal Sewell.

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