AUDREY BARTLEY MERCHANT

Audrey Bartley Merchant, 78. a native of Morgan City, Louisiana, and a resident of Toluca Lake, California, died at 9:59 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, at her home.

Visitation will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26, at The Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 Odell Clark Place, New York, New York. The funeral will follow at 10:30 a.m. a the church. Burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, 517 E. 233rd St., Bronx, New York.

She is survived by her husband, Roland Samuel Merchant of Toluca Lake; sons Huey Bartley Merchant (Steven Artiga) of Toluca Lake, and Roland Samuel Merchant Jr. (Jennifer Anderson Merchant) of Brooklyn; daughter Orelia Merchant Camara (Karim Camara), Brooklyn, New York; brother Frank Bartley III (Janice) of Baton Rouge; sisters Ruby B. Sanchez and Celia Clark of Baton Rouge, Gloria B. Moultrie (Calhoun) of New Orleans, Lorraine Bartley of Toledo,Ohio, and Laura B. Marshall of Morgan City; other sister-in-law Gertrude P. Bartley of Morgan City. and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her father, mother, three brothers and two sisters.