Winnie Bell Burr Armstrong

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Winnie Bell Burr Armstrong was called home on July 28, 2018 at the age of 89.

Winnie was born on February 22, 1929 to Jim William Burr Sr. and Carrie Barber Burr. Maw, to all who knew and loved her, was the life of the party and always ready for a good time. She enjoyed dancing, telling stories, pranking people, fellowshipping with her family but most of all she loved being a wonderful mother, second mom and grandmother!

Maw met her husband, Sol Edward Armstrong Sr. (Buddy), on a blind date and they were married for over 48 years. Together they raised three loving children.

During World War II she worked as a bomb maker in Mansfield, and later became a caregiver. One of her many passions included quilting and she left each of her grandchildren a handmade quilt to cherish. One could always find Maw gardening, planting flowers, riding horses on trail rides, loving on her Boston Terrier Sarah or sitting behind a video poker machine.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, her daughter, Judy Armstrong and her

brothers, Jim Burr Jr., Jimmy Burr, Roy Burr, Thomas Burr and Louis Burr; her sisters; Bernice Burr Weeks and Clarice (Dee) Burr Ward.

Left to celebrate her memory are her daughter, Diane Armstrong, of Broussard, Sol E. (Pete)

Armstrong, Jr., and his partner Pam Viator of New Iberia; her grandchildren, Jennifer Sinitiere, Tommy and his wife Ashley Sinitiere, Nichole and her husband Stephen Sitz, Heather Stratton, Christine and her husband Ryan Gallet, Sol E. (Ben) Armstrong III, John Sinitiere and his partner Omar Gallegos, Jim Brandon and his wife Colette Armstrong, Brooke and her husband Victor Mire, Brady and wife Lehia Armstrong and former daughter in-law and friend Linda Armstrong; great-grandchildren, Haley Gallet Trahan, Hannah Gallet, Collin and Kennedy Sinitiere, Connor Sitz, Rossi, Claire and Cole Armstrong, Mallorie and Mason Williams, Henry Armstrong, Dalton and Dale Gober and one great-great grandchild, Chloe Grace Trahan.

In celebration of her life on Wednesday, August 1, the family will have a private viewing at 10 a.m. They will receive friends and family at 10:30 a.m. until the service at 1 p.m. at Ibert’s Mortuary, 1007 Main Street, Franklin, Louisiana, with Bro. Blaise Smith officiating.

Following the service she will be laid to rest in the Franklin Cemetery.

Active pallbearers are Tommy Sinitiere, Connor Sitz, Jim Brandon Armstrong, Brady Armstrong, Sol E. (Ben) Armstrong III and Collin Sinitiere. Honorary pallbearers include Jennifer Sinitiere and John Sinitiere.

Family and friends may view the obituary and express their condolences online by visiting www.iberts.com.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Ibert’s Mortuary Inc., 1007 Main Street, Franklin, 70538, 828-5426.