A graveside service for Vonda Marlene Fair, 82, of Jacksonville, TX, will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Calhoun, LA, with Pastor James Brookes officiating, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Rd., Monroe.

Vonda was born on December 10, 1943, in Arroyo Grande, CA, and passed away April 9, 2026, in Jacksonville, TX. She worked as a nurse’s aide.

Our mother loved to garden and grow plants and flowers. She taught her daughters to cook. She learned to crochet at the age of 8 and continued to crochet until just before her passing. She enjoyed sewing her daughters’ clothing and she made each of their wedding dresses on her sewing machine. Mom spent a lot of hours praying for us and loved the Lord, God, with all her heart. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 47 and survived it with speech and other disabilities. It changed her personality to being a joker. Her favorite joke she told every time we drove by a cemetery was, “How many people died to get in there? All of them!” Mom devoted her life, first to God, her daughters, and our dad. She cared for her mother until she passed away as well.

Vonda was preceded in death by her parents, John J. Lewis and Cleo V. Granger; and by four siblings, Jack Lewis, Mavis Groves, Judy Summers and Edith Irby; and her husband, J.C. Fair.

Survivors include her three daughters, Jackie L. Evans, Kim M. Combs, and Deanna L. Todd; six grandchildren, Tim Bearden, Jennifer Sturdivant, Cortney Bonvillian, Olivia Jones, Joshua Evans, and Brittany Bonvillian; as well as ten great-grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers will be Tucker Sturdivant, Chris Sturdivant, and Jackson Sturdivant, Joshua Evans and Tim Bearden. The honorary pallbearer will be Nathan Jones.