Funeral service for Mrs. Doris Walker Bessonette will be 2 p.m., Wednesday,

October 21, 2020, at Riverwood Family with burial at Mallalieu Methodist Church Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the time of service at Riverwood.

Mrs. Doris Walker Bessonette, 89, of Brookhaven, passed from this life October 17, 2020.

She was born November 1, 1930, to her parents, Isom W. Walker and Ophelia Jones Walker.

She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend.

She was a member of Mallalieu Methodist Church.

She is preceded in death by her husband, John Carl “J.C.” Bessonette; her parents; sons,

Michael H. Smith, Stephen Smith; three brothers, Charles Walker, Haskell Walker,

and Paul Walker; three sisters, Mildred Brown, Eloyes L. Bessonette, Patricia Ann Brown;

and great granddaughter Isabella Newman.

Those left to cherish her memory are her son, John Kevin Bessonette (Stacy McEachern);

daughter-in-law, Patricia Smith; four grandchildren, Chris Smith (Christina),

Alanna Smith (Tracey Case), Zercon Smith (Shannon), Jessica Smith; and four great grandchildren,

Elizabeth Smith, Peyton Smith, Quinn Smith, and Wrynn Case.

She is also survived by a host of nieces, nephews and other loving family members and friends.