Fredericksburg, VA

Mrs. Reba Lee Tackett Fransen, 86, passed away Friday, October 31, 2025, at the Morningside House of Spotsylvania.

A funeral service will be held at 10 AM, Tuesday, November 4th at Crumpler-Honeycutt Funeral Home with Rev. David Page officiating.  Interment will follow the service in the Harrells City Cemetery.  After the interment the family will return to the funeral home for a visitation.

Reba, born May 22, 1939, in Accoville, West Virginia, was the daughter of the late James Hobert Tackett and Gracie Jane Knipp Tackett.  She was a member of New Life Baptist Church in Clinton.  She was a homemaker and a cook.  She was preceded in death by her husband Frank H. Fransen, sisters Christine Dorton, V. Sue Hensley and Betty Jane Young, and brothers Herman Tackett, Charles Tackett, Glen Tackett, Roy Tackett and Dennis Tackett.

Survivors include her son Frank H. Fransen, Jr., daughter Debra Fransen Haines, sisters Ruth Burress and Virginia Szwaja, five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and brother Ronald Tackett.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.crumpler-honeycutt.com.