Obituary: January 1974, Franklin Parish, LA
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Robert L. Atkins
Mrs. George Purvis
 
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The Franklin Sun      Winnsboro, LA    January 3, 1974
Submitted May 2007 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Robert L. Atkins
 
Funeral services for Robert Lathon Atkins, 21, of Crowville, will be 
today (Thursday) at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Winnsboro. 
The Revs. Larry Walker and Lee Smith will officiate.
 
Mr. Atkins was killed in an auto accident January 1.
 
A lifelong resident of Crowville, Mr. Atkins was an oil field worker. He was a 
member of Crockett Point Baptist Church.
 
Interment will be in the Crowville Masonic Cemetery.
 
Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Atkins; a sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Canady, 
Ridgecrest; six brothers, David Atkins, Sheldon Atkins and Henry Atkins, Crowville; 
James Atkins, Clarksdale, Miss.; Wilburn Atkins, Alexandria, and Dale Atkins, Delhi; 
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sikes, Winnsboro; four nieces and one nephew.
 
Pallbearers will be Larry Walters, Mike Pylant, James Fletcher, Billy Buchan, 
Anthony Sturdivant and Marvin Womack.

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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA      January 3, 1974
Submitted May 2007 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Mrs. George Purvis
 
Funeral services were conducted in Opelousas Wednesday, Dec. 26, 
for Mrs. George Frank Purvis, 93, who died there Tuesday, Dec. 25.
 
Rites were conducted at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Epiphany by 
Father Eugene Warner. Burial was at 3 p.m. in the Masonic Cemetery in Rayville.
 
Mrs. Purvis, the former Mamie Womble, was born in 1880. A member of 
a prominent family in Winnsboro, she was educated in private schools, 
then was graduated in 1900 from Louisiana State Normal (now Northwestern State University) 
in Natchitoches.
 
Her first marriage was to Edward Charles Abell, the first white 
child born in Franklin Parish. 
Following his death in 1905, she returned to teaching and 
taught in the public school systems in several northeast Louisiana parishes.
 
Mrs. Purvis later married George Frank Purvis of Rayville, where 
she made her home until her retirement as a member of the Rayville High School 
faculty at the age of 70.
 
She was active in community affairs and in the Louisiana Teachers 
Retirement Association. She was a communicant of St. David's Episcopal Church 
of Rayville, and a charter member of the Lambda Kappa club there.
 
Mrs. Purvis, pre-deceased by her elder son, Edward Charles Abell, Jr. 
and is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Abell Norman of Opelousas, 
and a son, George Frank Purvis Jr., of New Orleans, eight 
grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

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