Obituary: Feb. 1966, Franklin Parish, LA
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The following obituaries are listed below:

Ollie Lee Barnes
Geneva Jackson
Brinsfield King
W. R. McCarty

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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    February 24, 1966
Submitted January 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Mrs. Barnes
Graveside funeral services at Oakley Cemetery, near Wisner, 
were to be held this afternoon for Mrs. Ollie Lee Barnes, 83, 
of Lufkin, Tex., who died there Wednesday morning. The Rev. 
Carlton Vance, Wisner Baptist minister, was to offficiate at 
the rites.
Mrs. Lee who had resided at Lufkin for the past nine years, 
is survived by a daughter, 
Mrs. R. L. Wynn, Lufkin; a sister, Mrs. Ida Sorey, Monroe; a 
grandchild and two great-grandchildren.
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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    February 24, 1966
Submitted January 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Mrs. Geneva Jackson
Eighty-three-year-old Mrs. Geneva Combs Jackson of Winnsboro was 
buried Tuesday afternoon in Myrtle Memorial Cemetery near here, 
following funeral services at the Winnsboro First Baptist Church, 
with the Rev. Clarence Young, her pastor, officiating. Mrs. Jackson, 
who had been ill for a lengthy period, succumbed late Sunday in 
a hospital here.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Carrie Jackson Holcomb, Picayune, 
Miss,; a son, Robert C. Jackson, Alexandria, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Wallace 
R. Smith of Winnsboro and Mrs. Albert M. Adams, Miami, Fla.; four 
grandchidlren and nine great-grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers were L. Stanley Bryant, Shirley Evans, Martin 
Harris, E. T. McClung, C. W. Jones and Wallace Smith, Jr.
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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    February 24, 1966
Submitted January 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Brinsfield King
Brinsfield King, 39, of Baton Rouge, formerly of Winnsboro, succumbed 
to a brief illness Monday morning in a Baton Rouge hospital. He was a 
grandson of Franklin Parish's senior citizen, "Uncle Jim" King of Ft. 
Necessity, who is 111 years old.
The funeral was Wednesday afternoon at Boeuf Prairie Methodist Church, 
Ft. Necessity, with burial in the cemetery there.
Mr. King is survived by his wife, Mrs. Martha King, Baton Rouge; a son, 
Brinsfield King, III, and two daughters, Karen and Mona King, all of 
Baton Rouge; his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Brinsfield King, Sr. Baton Rouge, 
and his grandfather.
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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA     February 24, 1966
Submitted March 2006 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
W. R. McCarty
 
Wiley Robert McCarty, 80, of Winnsboro died Tuesday morning in a hospital here. 
He had been ill a long time.
Final rites were held Wednesday afternoon. The funeral was at Boeuf River Baptist 
Church, and interment was in the Ogden Cemetery.
 
Surviving Mr. McCarty are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. A. A. Moore of Ft. Necessity, 
Mrs. Dan Martin of Winnfield and Mrs. Dewey Polk of Winnsboro; two sisters, Mrs. Sam Willis, 
Shreveport, and Mrs. Nancy Jane Underwood, Sikes; 15 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren 
and a great-great-grandchild.
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