Bossier Parish, La Obituaries
submitted by: Kay McMahan <kayn@webtv.net>
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~Bossier Banner News~22 Nov. 1962
-Fire Victims Rites Friday-
Funeral services for a retired Bossier Parish farmer and his wife, who
died last Wednesday morning when their home on the Ivan-Cotton Valley
road was destoyed by flames, were held at 2 p.m Friday in the Pilgrim's
Home Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Rocky Mount Cemetery.
Bossier Parish Deputy Coroner Dr. S.G.Carrington said Joe Bounds, 88,and
his wife, Nannie Mae (Rabb) Bounds, 82, died of asphyxiation in the
fire, which swept their home about dawn Wednesday.
Josh Bounds, a son of the couple, discovered the blaze when he got up to
go to work about 5 a..m.  He lives in a house next door to his parents
and heard the roar of the flames, When he rushed to the burning house,
he found the roof collasped and the dwelling completely enveloped in
flames.
Dr. Carrington said one of the bodies was found in the bathroom and the
other in a back room of the house. The frame house had burned to the
ground when a fire fighting crew from the Cotton Valley Volunteer Fire
Department arrived at the scene.
It was the second and third fire fatalities of the year from Bossier
Parish.
Mr. & Mrs. Bounds had resided near the Ivan Community since 1914,
Bossier Parish Deputy Reese Hardcastle of Plain Dealing said.
The couple is survived by three sons: Josh, who lived next to the
couple, Joe Bounds of Sarepta, and Guy Bounds of Kermit, Texas. Three
daughters: Mrs. B.H. Alexander of Burkburnett, Texas, Mrs. Red Brewer of
Houma, La. and Miss Edna Bounds of Cotton Valley.
Mr. Bounds had one sister, Mrs. Katie McClure of Cotton Valley.
Mrs. Bounds had two sisters: Mrs. W.B. Pearce & Mrs. Veye Spruill both
of Shreveport. The couple is also survived by 10 Grand-children and 19
Great- Grandchildren.

Submitter~Kay McMahan
My Note-Joe BOUNDS (William Joseph) was son of William Richard "Rich"
BOUNDS & Nancy Catherine YOUNG.