Verna Loretta Mitcham Welch  - American Press

Verna Loretta Mitcham Welch  - American Press

Verna Loretta Mitcham Welch, 81, has gone to be with her Lord and Savior after a courageous and long battle with heart disease, leaving a void her family cannot fill. Loretta was born in Flora, La. and was raised in the Natchitoches area. She graduated from Natchitoches High School and then pursued her dream of becoming a teacher at Northwestern State University. During her senior year of college, she married her high school sweetheart and the l…