A funeral service celebrating the life of John Wayne Onishea, 68, will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Coushatta with Bro. James Nailes officiating. Interment will follow in St. Ann’s Cemetery in the Spanish Lake community. The family will receive friends from 12:00 PM until service time.

Wayne was born on November 13, 1954, in Shreveport, LA to Jessie and Louise Irvin Onishea and passed away November 4, 2023, in Coushatta, LA.

Wayne was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Jessie James Onishea. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Pam Onishea; daughters, Monica Onishea and wife, Terri, Mindy Daniels and husband, Bob, Madeline Onishea, Jillian Onishea and bonus children, Casey Stroud, Kelsey Ballard and James Stroud; sisters, Shirley Young, Kathy Thomasee and husband, Wayne, and Mary French and husband, Ronnie; brothers, Norman Onishea and wife, Jean and Herbert Onishea; grandchildren, Hannah Hullender, Patrick Stanberry, Chase Stanberry, Dylan Daniels, Dalton Daniels, Slayden Horn, London Horn, Nahla Wiggins, Sutton Rogers and Axel Rogers and other relatives and friends.

Honoring Wayne as pallbearers will be Bob Daniels, Dylan Daniels, Dalton Daniels, Rodney French, James Thomasee and Ryan French.

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