Obituary of Olivia May Fuller, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: The Caldwell Watchman-Progress, December 5, 1957
Date: September 2004



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Headline: Ward 9 Woman Died Thursday
The Caldwell Watchman-Progress, December 5, 1957

Obituary of Olivia May Fuller

Mrs. Olivia May Fuller of Cotton Plant community in Ward 9, died 
Thanksgiving morning after a long illness.  She was 78 years of age.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday of Old Union Baptist church
in Ward nine, with the Rev. J. D. Kitchingham of Columbia in charge, 
assisted by Dr. Wren Causey and the Rev. Robert Peek of Monroe assisting.

Interment was made in the Old Union cemetery under the direction of Riser
and Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mrs. May was twice married, her first husband being Bob May, a merchant
and planter of Cotton Plant.  To this union was born five sons.  They are:
Dewey M. May of Ward 9; Hollie May of Cross Roads, Garland May of Monroe,
Clyde May, highway patrolman of Tallulah, Hunter May of St. Joseph.

After Mr. May's death, she later married her present husband, W. M. Fuller.
Before her first marriage she was Olivia May Dunn, her parents' old place
being located in Columbia on the lot where the F. M. Gartman home is now
located.

Besides her husband and children, she is also survived by a brother, Solon
W. Dunn of McAllen, Texas; two half-brothers, Gordon Dunn and Hardy Dunn
of Austin, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Annie Dunn Gimble of Tyler, Texas; 15
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.