Obituary of Chad Michael Beard

Funeral services for Mr. Chad Michael Beard, a Jack of All Trades, age 32, are scheduled for 2 P.M. Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at Macedonia Baptist Church in Kilbourne, LA, with Rev. Michael Grant officiating. Interment will follow in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery. Family will receive friends Tuesday from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. at the church. Mr. Beard was known to be a Mechanic, Pipeliner and a Jack of All Trades. Mr. Beard is survived by his wife, Ashley Rebecca Beard; children, Dawton, Beanka, and Lawson Beard; parents, Jerry and Pam Beard of Oak Grove, LA; grandparents, Minnie Mae Beard of Oak Grove, LA, Tommy Mathews of Oak Grove, LA, and step grandfather, Doug Keen of Oak Grove, LA; siblings, Ashley Beard Bolding and husband Ricky of Oak Grove, LA, and Jay McNeil and wife Sarah of Oak Grove, LA; uncle and aunt, Robert and Becky Beard of Oak Grove, LA; mother and father-in-law, Melody and Donnie DeSelle of Oak Grove, LA; grandmother-in-law, Kathelene Donohue; sisters-in-law, Mandy Cater, Courtney Coley and husband DJ, Kyleigh DeSelle; brother-in-law, Tommy Cater and wife Jessica; nieces and nephews, Lucian Bolding, Lynus Bolding, Connor Cater, Skylar Cater, Colby Cater, Dalton Baugus, Kal Cater, Matty Cater, Gage Peterson, Dravin Cater, Ellie Stephens, Tre' Coley, Raylan Coley, Jacob McNeil, Anthony McNeil, John McNeil, Shelby McNeil and Hayden McNeil and several other aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Faye Long Keen, O.F. Beard, Jr., Iris Mathews and husband Clinton, Troy Ashcraft and wife Hallie; one brother, Christopher Jason Sanders. Serving as pallbearers will be Rod Russell, Cole Cross, Cody Hufty, James Patterson, Matt Hufty and Travis Ruffin. Honorary pallbearers will be Dawton Beard, Daniel Stacy, Alan Bolding, Cole Russell, Josh Martin, Norman Calhoun.