Newspapers/Obituaries:  Laura Bernice Andrews Wise, Claiborne Parish 
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by:  Jerry Lou Gallagher
Date:  Mar. 2001



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Laura Bernice Andrews Wise

Services were held Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 2 P.M. at the Colquitt
Community Center, with graveside services following in Colquitt Cemetery for
Laura Bernice Andrews Wise, loving wife for 59 years of James Cortez Wise,
Jr.  Presiding at the services will be Dr. Shelby Cowling, pastor of the
Colquitt Baptist Church.  Bernice entered into rest at 10:40 P.M. on
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001, in the Homer Hospital in Claiborne Parish, LA after
a lengthy illness.

Born February 4, 1918, in Thomasville, GA, Bernice was educated at Georgia
State Women's College )now Valdosta State College) in Valdosta, Georgia.
She was married in Biloxi, Mississippi, on February 7, 1842, to James Cortez
Wise, Jr. and airman and later an officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and
a building contractor.  Mr. Wise was born in Mansfield, LA on July 25, 1920.
They have lived in Colquitt, LA since 1953.

Mrs. Wise was a talented local artist, an amateur genealogist, and member of
the Claiborne Parish LSDAR based on the services of Elijah Smith of Maryland
in the Revolutionary War.

Other early ancestors included Frederick Andrews of Randolph Co., GA,
Archibald Odom, RS of Pulaski Co., GA, Benjamin L. Jordon of Putnam Co., GA,
Lewis W. JcKee of Jasper Co., GA,  Buz Stanaland of Bullock Co., GA,
Jonathan Brannock Bryan, RS, of Onslow Co., NC,  Robert Nichols of Hanover
Co., NC, Levi Harrell of Barnwell Co., SC, and Issac Allen of Thomas Co.,
GA.

Her father P. C. Andrews, Sr. was born Jan. 20, 1888, in Randolph Co., GA.
Her mother, Julia Antoinette Stanaland Andrews was born Sept.1886, in
Boston, Thomas Co., GA.

Bernice's gentle nature and loving kindness are cherished in memory by her
husband James Cortez Wise, Jr. of Claiborne Parish, LA and three daughters
and their husbands; Dorothy Jean "Dot" and Dave Wirth of Baton Rouge, LA,
Sue and Merrell Knighten of Shreveport, LA and Marie and John Hardy of
Sterling, VA; a son and his wife, Robert Clayton "Bobby" and Patti
(Lancaster) Wise of Haynesville, LA; two granddaughters, Laura Jean "Jeanie"
Wirth of Baton Rouge and Lauren Marie Wise of Haynesville; six grandsons;
William David "Billy" (and Renee) Wirth of Houston, TX, David (and Tressa)
Knighten of Boulder, CO, Michael Knighten of Boulder CO., Thomas and Patrick
Knighten  of Shreveport and Brandon Wise of Haynesville, LA; two great-
grandsons; Jered and Rachel Petrie of Baton Rouge, LA and Mason Audy
Knighten of Forest, LA; and one great-great-granddaughter, Layla Marie
Petrie of Baton Rouge.

She also is survived by three brothers and their wives; Percy C. and
Margaret Andrews, of Thomasville, GA, Thomas Bryan "Tom" and Phoebe Andrews
of Statesville, NC and Howard and Peggy Andrews of St. Augustine each, FL;
and two sisters; Antoinette "Toni" and her husband, Paul Caldwell of
Hammond, IN and Frances Andrews Stone of Thomasville, GA and a host of
Nieces and Nephews.

Bernice was preceded in death by her parents, P. C. Andrews, Sr. and Julia
(Stranaland) Andrews of Thomasville, GA, and by two sons, James Thomas "Jim"
Wise and William Cortez "Corky" Wise, both of Claiborne Parish, LA.

Pallbearers will be Howard Odom and grandsons" Billy Wirth, David Knighten,
Mike Knighten, Tommy Knighten and Patrick Knighten.

The family would like to extend heartfelt appreciation to Doctors Butler and
the nursing staff at Homer Memorial Hospital and all the other friends and
neighbors who have been such a blessing during her final illness.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

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