Christy Denyse Adams Wilbanks was born in Alexandria, Louisiana on September 13, 1977, and left this life surrounded by her family on November 1, 2023, at the young age of 46.

Christy was quiet and soft-spoken by nature except when it came to her family, where she would joke and play with them. Her love for her family and friends ran deep and she expressed this love by planning get-togethers and parties, buying gifts, and making all the cakes for every event. She was gifted in fixing appliances and loved to decorate her home for every holiday, especially Christmas.

She was a natural born nurturer, which was evident in her career choices of childcare and grooming dogs. Her love of children developed at a young age, and it carried over into her adult life when she had a childcare business in her home for 15+ years. She then started grooming dogs, which she has done with her mother and sister for the past seven years.

Her true loves in her life are her husband of 23 years and their four children. She loved to have adventures, explore, camp, vacation, play games, and spend quality time with them.

Christy was preceded in death by her grandparents and a niece, Caroline Bradford.

Left to treasure her life, love, and memories are her husband, Chad and their children, Cayden, Chaney and fiancé Kaina, Carsey, and Conlin. Her parents, Kenny and Sandra Adams, sisters, Sandy Smith and husband, Raymond, and Jessie Faulkner, in-laws, Gary and Sharla Wilbanks, Casie Bradford and husband Slade, nephews, Bryan Faulkner, and wife, Sydney and daughter Laney, Dylan Faulkner, and Andrew Smith, nieces, Maci Bradford and Jaylee Faulkner, and a host of other family and friends.

Funeral Services will be held on Sunday, November 5, 2023, at Temple Baptist Church of Jena at 2:00pm with Rev. Justin Caples and Rev. Mike Russell officiating. Following the service Christy will be laid to rest in the Jena Cemetery, east of Jena on Hwy. 84 under the directions of Kinner & Stevens Funeral Home.

Honored to serve Christy and her family as pallbearers are Joe Harvey Paul, Rodney Phillips, Dustin Keene, Dale Breithaupt, Jason Robertson and Todd Cooper. Honorary pallbearer is David "Cowboy" Robertson.