Willie Ray Stubblefield

In the brightness of God’s glory, on March 5, 1957 in Delhi, Louisiana, the late Hattie B. Stubblefield-Shaffer was blessed with a beautiful bundle of joy, Willie Ray Stubblefield.

Willie attended Waverly High School and thereafter Central High School until graduation. He was baptized and became a member of Mount Zion in Delhi, Louisiana under the leadership of the late Pastor Tellis James.

He moved to Monroe, Louisiana and joined Piney Grove Baptist Church under the leadership of Reverend Donald Woods. 

After graduating high school he joined the United States Armed Forces, Army Division. He served his country for four years retiring afterward with an honorable discharge from the military. After retiring from the military, he pursued his lifelong passion as a “Big Rig Driver”. As a child, while riding along the highway with his family and seeing the “big rigs” and making the arm gesture to blow their horn as they passed by, that was always in his mind to pursue a career as a driver. He drove an eighteen wheeler for thirty plus years from coast to coast for various companies, which included J-Mar Trucking and El-Derlite Express Trucking Company.

He is preceded in death by his parent, Hattie B. Stubblefield-Shaffer, grandparents Cube (Rachel) Stubblefield, wife- Nora Lee Perkins-Stubblefield of more than forty years; and a baby boy Harry Holland Jr., of whom he helped raise before his death at an early age.

He leaves to cherish his memories a son Chante (Nancy) Hedgeman, with his family – Aliyah, Alexis, and Omarion. Also, as he departed to his home in heaven, he will be mourned and cherished by (6) sisters, Beatrice (Denny) May-Remsey, Verda (Cleophas) Burgess, Shirley Bailey, Ozie Jackson, Marie Stubblefield, Jackie (Tony Robinson) Shaffer, and (2) brothers, John (Teresha) Shaffer and Derrick Shaffer and a host of nieces and nephews.

In addition, his legacy will live on by his blended family from his marriage to Nora, of which he helped raise as his own; from their early ages of eight and five and a half years old; Lamisa (Tony) Carradine and LeMarkits Holland; (10) grandchildren, LeMarkits Jr., Antionette (Tatiana), DeMario, Alisa, Joelisa, Aniya, Courday, Marzaline, and Marlon, (2) great-grandchildren, Godchildren Rachaelle Matthews and Willie Dunn, (9) nieces, (12) nephews and host of relatives and friends.

He will be forever cherished, loved, and truly missed by his family, friends, and love ones.

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