07/09/2004, Friday
Obituaries
THE DAILY SENTINEL, Nacogdoches


Nelle Cariker Aimer 
Out of State
Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, LA

Funeral services for Nelle Cariker Aimer, 92, of Shreveport, 
La., will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 10, 2004, in the chapel 
of Osborn Funeral Home in Shreveport. Interment will follow at 
Forest Park Cemetery. Officiating will be the Reverend Tom 
Howe of First United Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. 
Canon Jane W. B. Alexander of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral. 
Visitation will be held from 5 until 7 p.m. Friday, July 9, at 
Osborn Funeral Home. 

Mrs. Aimer was born February 1, 1912 in Cushing, Texas, and 
died Wednesday, July 7, 2004, at Grace Home in Shreveport 
after a brief illness. 

She was preceded in death in 1973 by her husband, James David 
Aimer; parents, Thomas J. Cariker of Clayton, Texas, and Zula 
Orton Cariker Martin of Nacogdoches, Texas; step-father, Edgar 
Lee Martin; a sister, Zula Orton Dale of Silsbee, Texas; a 
nephew, Bill Dale of Nederland, Texas; and by two sons-in-law, 
Ray Allan Barlow of Shreveport and David Rutherford Key of 
Jefferson, Texas. 

She is survived by two daughters, Janet Aimer Barlow of 
Shreveport and Frances Aimer Rounds and husband, James Edwin 
Rounds of Jefferson, Texas; grandchildren and their spouses: 
Nelle Barlow Lloyd and John Wallace Lloyd; Ray Allan Barlow 
Jr.; David Andrew Barlow and Sarah Norwood Barlow, all of 
Shreveport; Amy Key Keith and Frederick William Keith III of 
Austin, Texas; Hobart Rutherford Key and Evelyn Whatley Key; 
Swann Key Wicker and Luther Carrol Wicker, all of Jefferson; 
great-grandchildren, David Andrew Barlow Jr., Sarah Emily 
Barlow and Benjamin Aimer Barlow, all of Shreveport; David 
Grady Keith and William Garrett Keith, both of Austin, Texas; 
and by a niece, Geraldine Dale Brackin, of Silsbee, Texas. She 
is also survived by her beloved extended family: Luther Carrol 
Wicker Jr. and Shelli Billings Wicker and their daughters, 
Marlee Jade Wicker and Maren Faith Wicker, all of Katy, Texas; 
Michael Edmund Wicker, of Jefferson, Texas; Steven Garrett Key 
of Hurlburt AFB, Florida; Carolyn Ann Key and Devin Nathaneal 
Key of Temple, Texas; Steven Whatley and Myrna, Marina and 
Jonathan McKay Whatley, all of Arlington, Texas; Victoria 
Whatley Coats and James Coats and Nate Coats of Lufkin, Texas. 

Mrs. Aimer and her family belonged to Broadmoor Baptist 
Church, and then in 1959 with her husband became a member of 
First United Methodist Church where she served in the Gleaners 
Class and was an honorary life member of the Church Council. 

She was a founding member, in 1936, of The Reviewers Book 
Club, and was active in the Shreveport Geological Wives Club 
and the Little Theatre. She devoted much of her time to her 
community, serving on the Woman's Department Club, in the 
Demoiselle Club, and the Cotillion Club where she was court 
chairwoman and duchess chairwoman, the Colonial Dames, Hypatia 
Club and Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity. 

Pallbearers will be Bryan Holt Davis Jr., Bryan Holt Davis 
III, Frederick William Keith III, Hobart Rutherford Key, John 
Wallace Lloyd, Jack Steele Sanders, Luther Carrol Wicker, 
Luther Carrol Wicker Jr. and Michael Edmund Wicker. 

Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice or to 
the First United Methodist Church Eternal Flame Endowment 
Fund, the Stiles Apartments at the Glen Retirement Center or 
Grace Home Hospice Care of Christus Schumpert. 

Osborn Funeral Home, Shreveport, La.