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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1969
Page
5
Obituary notices recall Edward H Weatherill 80 of Brunswick Mo and Walter LeJeune longtime Ouachita Parish resident and WWII veteran. Survivors include children and grandchildren. Funeral services held at Blackwell and Golden Chapel and St. Paschal's Church with interments in local cemeteries.
Funeral services for Fred Conley Sr 54 of Monroe are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Martin Temple Methodist Church. Interment will be in Richwood Memorial Gardens under Miller Funeral Home direction. Survivors include his widow Jessie Conley of Monroe and two sisters plus four brothers and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mr. Harris, a World War II veteran, were held at 10 a.m. in Spears Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Roy Grant and Rev. Otis Spinks officiating. Interment followed at Douglas Cemetery. He was a retired Methodist and survived by his parents and several siblings across Louisiana towns.
Mrs Bertha Simpson 80 widow of the late R E Simpson died after a lengthy illness died at Bernice Hospital at 125 am Wednesday Funeral services were held at Evergreen Baptist Church Bernice with Rev Gray Nolan officiating Interment at Evergreen Cemetery Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Farmerville directed the survivors include five sons Earl and Willie of Bernice Chester and James Tip of Farmerville and Russell of Can...
Ton Mississippi widow Mrs Clovis Raey of Shreveport and daughters Mrs Letha Holder Kansas City Missouri Mrs Iris Faye Rogers Monroe and Mrs Betty Holloway Houston Tex are named along with 28 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Mrs Simpsons grandsons served as pallbearers.
Funeral services for Capt George Howard Roberts 44 of Newbury New York 10 a.m. Friday at St Pauls Methodist Church with Rev Clyde Frazier officiating Burial in Memorial Park directed by Hixson Brothers Funeral Home with graveside military rites He died Saturday in West Point Hospital after a heart attack A Monroe high school and college graduate He served in the US Air Force and worked for United Gas Corp He was a member of Western Masonic Star Lodge and St Pauls Methodist Church in Monroe He is survived by his wife Ella Mai a son Keith a daughter Sharron his mother Mrs Jew El Atkins of Monroe Pallbearers are Charles Ponder Larry Bennett Klein Crow H C Richter John Hassion and Keith R Roberts Second part funeral details for Mrs Viola Cal Riser 85 Ruston with services at Spears Funeral Home Chapel and burial in Riser Cemetery She died Wednesday at Lincoln General Hospital She was a Ruston native charter member of Grace Methodist Church and survived by her sons Volney Riser Deryl Riser Bert Riser Ben Riser Allen Riser two daughters Fynton Simpson Patt Newman two sisters Honor Risinger Huldah Baker 16 grandchildren 22 great grandchildren Funeral services for Mrs Ira Tidwell Downsville item truncated.
Funeral services for James B. Tate 35 of Shreveport were set for 4 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Waverly with Rev. Walters and Rev. Rogers officiating. Burial followed at Delhi Masonic Cemetery under First National Funeral Home. Tate was found beaten with hands tied, near Leesville, and officials said he had been dead about two days. A Vernon Parish Sheriff's investigation is underway. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Tate of Waverly and sister Patsy Eaton of Tulsa.
Tidwell 65 of Downsville died after a long illness at her home. Funeral 5 p.m. today at Providence Baptist Church with Rev. Billy Carter officiating. Burial in Acree Cemetery at Point. Survivors include husband Ira E. Tidwell two sons Hugh Orien Tidwell Rayville and Glenn Ira Tidwell West Monroe mother Mrs. L. S. Antley Point sisters Mrs. H. L. Hales Monroe and Mrs. H. R. Wilhite West Monroe brother C. C. Antley Point six grandchildren. Pallbearers Marvis V. Albritton Milton Albritton Amos Antley Roy Bayles Rabin Nolan Prentiss Pardue.
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