Obituary: Sept. 1946, Franklin Parish, LA
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Leon Otis Brewster
Mrs. Cora Dark

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The Franklin Sun       Winnsboro, LA       September 12, 1946
Submitted Feb.2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Leon Otis Brewster
 
Brewster Rites Held in Baskin
 
Funeral services for Leon Otis Brewster, 45, of near Baskin, were held at the 
family residence Sunday, 2 p.m. with the Rev. Jess Hawthorne officiating. 
Burial was made in the Ogden cemetery under the direction of First National 
Funeral home.
 
Mr. Brewster died in a Winnsboro hospital Saturday evening. He is survived by 
his wife, Mrs. Ruby Brewster; seven sons, James L. Brewster, Deridder, Chester, 
Vernon, Clyde, Eugene, Leon Jr., and Charles Brewster all of Baskin; three daughters, 
Miss Margie Brewster and Miss Nadine Brewster, Baskin, and Mrs. Nell Smith, Baskin. 
He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Pe??, Alexandria, and 
Mrs. Maggie Fellow (sic) Fowler, Lecompte; and his father, Lensey Brewster of Lecompte.


The Franklin Sun       Winnsboro, LA       September 19, 1946
Submitted Feb. 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Last Rites Conducted For Mrs. Cora Dark Sunday at Boeuf River
 
Mrs. Cora Jones Dark, succumbed, after a long illness, Saturday afternoon 
at a Monroe hospital. She was 70 years of age. Funeral rites and burial 
services were conducted Sunday afternoon at Boeuf River Baptist church and 
the Ogden cemetery with the Rev. Tom Ratcliff, assisted by the Rev. J. H. Hamilton 
of Ferriday, officiating.
 
Mrs. Dark is survived by her husband, two sons, six daugh-mediate family. The husband 
is R. L. Dark, Winnsboro; sons, P. L. Dark, Winnsboro, and Carl M. Dark, Columbia; 
daughters, Mrs. W. L. Simon and Mrs. Della Ross of Ft. Necessity, Mrs. G. R. Knight 
of Tuscon, Ariz., Mrs. S. C. Ferguson of Clayton, Mrs. D. C. McGraw of Shreveport 
and Mrs. L. H. Young of Ferriday; brothers, A. M. Jones, Houston, Tex., and 
R. D. Jones, Winnfield.
 
Pallbearers were Daniel G. Ross, Charles Ray Hargrove, S. C. Ferguson, Jr., 
Roy C. Simon, ? B. Simon, and Bill Kemper.
 
Funeral direction was by First National Funeral home of Winnsboro.

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