Obituary of Odessa May Alger, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: August 27, 2004



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Obituary:  Odessa May Alger
November 20, 2003

Services for Odessa May Alger, age 92, of Columbia will be held
at 2 p.m., Thursday, November 20, 2003 at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist 
Church, west of Columbia with Rev. Chuck Stapleton, Rev.
Mike Green and Rev. Doyle Adams officiating.  Interment will
follow in the Fellowship Cemetery.
   
Mrs. Alger was born in Caldwell Parish on September 4, 1911 to
the union of  Mack and Verdie Gordon Stamper and died Tuesday,
November 18, 2003 at the Glenwood Regional Medical Center in
West Monroe.
   
She was a homemaker and a faithful member of the Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her
husbands: Marion M. May and Marvin Alger, her daughter: Nelda
May Griggs, her sister: Frances McClary and her brothers: Andrew
Stamper and Ozro Stamper.
   
Survivors include her sons: Marion E. "Gene" May and his wife:
Charlene, Waylon E. May and his wife: Mary and Everett May and
his wife: Pat all of Columbia, her daughters: Gloria Herrington and 
her husband: Lowery of Vidalia, Louise Powers and her husband:
Earl of Winnsboro and Yvonne May McKeithen of Baton Rouge,
her son-in-law; Harold G. Griggs and his wife Andrea of West Monroe,
her step-children: Marcelle Hester and her husband: Ellis of West
Monroe and Cloyce Alger and his wife: Wanda of Flower Mound, 
Texas, her brothers: J.V. Stamper of Shreveport and Amos Stamper
of Sarepta, her sisters: Annie Walters of West Monroe, Mary Lee
Smith of Kilgore, Tx. and Ona Mae Glascock of Denham Springs, 
twenty-three grandchildren, thirty-four great-grandchildren and
seven great-great-grandchildren.
   
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.