Departed Classmates of PVA Class of 1979

09/26/2025

So sorry to report that one of our 1979 homeroom teachers, Mrs Julia Boddie’s husband passed away.

01/23/2025

PVA graduates (still gathered) at the memorial for Mrs. Rozel Arant last Sunday, January 19, 2025.

Top L-R: Timmy Arant, Nicholas Freeland, Denis Baker, Jimmy Ogden, Frankie Herrington, Ricky Collins, Terry Tugwell, Emmett McDaniel.
Bottom L-R: Renee Decker, Kem Arant Schultz, Cindy Dye McMilleon, Karen Odenbaugh Mailhes, Rose-Marie Baker, Annette Baker Ogden, Monica Crain Riggin.
Not pictured, Shelley Herrington Lawh4oan, Alan Ogden

01/18/2025

Join us tonight at Johnny’s Pizza in Sterlington at 6:30pm for pizza and fun with Tim Arant and Kem Arant Schultz!
Everyone welcome. No telling if or when they will ever be back to their hometown. We’re not getting any younger folks!!!

01/16/2025

Join Timmy Arant and Kem Arant Schultz and friends for pizza Saturday night at Johnny's in Sterlington. We will let you know the exact time but estimate around 6:30pm.

Timmy and Kem are in Bastrop this weekend for a memorial gathering for their mother, Rozel Hightower Arant to be held on Sunday, January 19 from 2pm - 4pm at the Snyder Museum Garden Room. Everyone is welcome to come and share fellowship, refreshments, and their special memories of Rozel.

11/16/2024

The class of 1979 wished to send condolences to our classmate Timmy Arant and his sister, Kem (1978) in the loss of their mother early this morning near Houston, Tx. Mrs. Rozel Arant was an amazing English and Literature teacher and a funny, silly “wild and crazy gal” to all of us who knew and loved her. Our family friendship goes back many years before Timmy and I were even imagined! Family vacations and unforgettable stories will keep her alive in our hearts. RIP Rozel. Your knowledge, athleticism, quick wit and humor is missed but will always be cherished. Keep Timmy and Kem in your thoughts and prayer during this difficult time

11/16/2024

Last weekend Denis Baker and I went to Jim Harkness’ Lake House to fulfill a final obligation I felt to him. Denis helped me wintered our boat last weekend and I am indeed grateful to him for teaching me what he had already showed Jim how to do. The weekend Jim didn’t make it home was when he and I were going to do it. Today I checked into Little Buffalo Terrace’s Dogwood Studio, the room my beloved classmate stayed in on his fateful trip to Jasper, AR in September. The Chief Deputy on the Newton County Sheriff’s Office is picking me up tomorrow morning and we are going to the NCSO to talk over the accident and then he is taking me to the site where I will place this granite marker. Tomorrow will be a difficult day but I hope it will bring some closure. Jim and I had always been good and close friends but our path was quickly becoming more involved. His exit from this life has really devastated me and many others. The little frog on the milk can was sitting outside the door of my room when I got here. Jim’s Combat Veteran’s Morocycle Association nickname was “Frogsticker“. It was almost like Jim was waiting for me to get here…

09/14/2024

09/14/2024

With incredible pain in my heart I must tell you that we have lost our dear, sweet Jimmy Will Harkness to a motorcycle crash in Arkansas a couple of days ago. His service will be at Golden Funeral Home on Wednesday, September 18 at 2pm with visitation prior to the service from noon until 2pm. As many of you recall, Jim lost his wife Jan in 2020. He is now reunited with her and his parents. I spent every weekend this summer with Jim and I can honestly say he was as happy as I had seen him in a long time and was excited about the future and living on Lake D'Arbonne where many of us spent our 1979 Senior Day Trip. Please be in prayer or send good thougnts to his family as they were blindsided by this news. He is survived by his son Blake and wife Magan and 2 grandaughters and his brother Tim and wife, Debbie.

05/17/2024

Class of 1979…do you all realize that on May 15 we have officially been out of PVA for 45 years??!!??!!

03/31/2022

Got this word in a text from classmate Timmy Arant today:

Hello fellow Spartan alumni, family, and friends. It's with a heavy heart I share this news of the passing of Charles David Sisk sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. I learned of this news earlier today, and got approval to share the breaking news with everyone. For those of you who didn't know him, Charles David was in the class of 1980, and was popular and liked by everyone. He was very active in all aspects of PVA, especially sports, and would do anything for anyone. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. Funeral arrangements and Information should be forthcoming. God Speed, Charles David!