Last Days
In February 2009, less than two months into his tenure as John Fleming's chief of staff, Fletcher was stricken with cancer. He underwent treatment in Ruston and Monroe as well as The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. A sarcoma in his back metastasized. He died at the age of forty-three at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, with his grandmother at his side.
Services were held on October 5, 2009, at the First Church of God in Oak Grove, with the Reverend Mark Foster, a Pentecostal pastor from West Monroe officiating, assisted by the Reverends Paul Ninemire, a Church of God minister from Oak Grove, and Dennis Anger, pastor of the Cypress Street Church of God in West Monroe. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers were former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, Ruston businessman James Davison, political consultant Roy Fletcher (no relation), newspaper publisher Sam Hanna Jr., Dr. Guthrie Jarrell, Doug Mangum, and Judge Wendell Manning. Honorary pallbearers were U.S. Representatives John Fleming and Rodney Alexander, Monroe businessman Ron Alexander, Campbell Kaufman, Todd Perry, state Senators Mike Walsworth and Neil Riser, and Fletcher's Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.
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