A private graveside service for Jeannine Robinson Ratcliff of Bude, MS, will be held on Friday, June 27, 2025, at Midway Cemetery in Meadville, MS, at 10:30 am with Franklin Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements, and a Memorial Service will be held on Saturday at St. Alban's Chapel, Baton Rouge, LA

Jeannine Ratcliff, 88, a resident of St. James Place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. She was born on April 23, 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mr. Floyd Robinson and Mrs. Gevevieve Robinson.

Jeannine attended the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Florida, taught second grade for thirty years at Franklin County Elementary, led trips for Webb Travel Agency, and served as a Girl Scout leader as well as a Girl Scout liaison between the local troop and the Girl Scouts of America.  She enjoyed keeping the nursery and faithfully arranging flowers for the altar at First Presbyterian Church in Meadville. Jeannine loved laughter, lilacs in spring, playing bridge, coffee with friends, and travelling the world.

Jeannine was preceded in death by both of her parents, husband, Dr. Coley Cayce Ratcliff, Jr, and her brother, Richard Robinson.

She is survived by her daughter, Andrea Ratcliff Bodron (John Allen Bodron), and her grandsons William Allen Bodron and Tanner Cayce Bodron, her nieces, Catherine Lea Robinson Durig and Lisa Ratcliff McGehee, her nephew, John Payne Ratcliff II, her sister-in-law, Betty Robinson, and her brother-in-law, John Payne Ratcliff.

The family requests that memorials be made in her name to the Alzheimer's Association or to Meadville First Presbyterian Church.