Julie Ann Monroe Buford

August 15, 2012

Julie Ann Monroe Buford, 48, of Arlington, Texas, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Texas.

Julie loved going to church and enjoyed working at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. She spent most of her time as a volunteer for the Boys and Girls Club for the handicap and she loved her work there and made friends very easily. She loved watching wrestling and volunteering her time to different church groups around Arlington.

Services will be Saturday, August 25, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Jerrel Gillentine and Bro. William Lambert officiating. Burial will be in the Red Bay City Cemetery.

Survivors include her husband of 11 years, Kevin Buford, of Arlington, Texas; her father, Dave Robinson of Red Bay; three sisters, Jeannette Firnstahl of Merrill, Wis., Stacey James and husband, Sonny, of Red Bay, and Janet Thornburg and husband, Larry, of Iuka Miss.; two brothers, John Robert Bush of Ill., Jim E. Monroe of Alexandria, Ill.; a lot of close friends she considered family especially PaPa Jeral Gillentine who was like a second father along with his wife, Sue, and a host of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her mother Bonnie Robinson.