Obit:Bessie Noble Westerburg, Franklin Parish, LA
Submitted by Shirley Ashley <shirla@vsta.com>
 
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The Franklin Sun, Winnsboro, Louisiana
May 31, 2000    Page 5A
Volume 143    No. 42
 
 
Bessie Noble Westerburg
 
 
Mrs. Bessie Noble Westerburg, a native of Richland Parish, a long time resident of 
Franklin Parish and Melbourne, Fla., passed away May 27, 2000.  She was currently 
living in Mobile, Ala. with her husband, Louis R. Westerburg, near her daughter, Dottie 
Rose Mattina and her husband, Joe Mattina and their two sons, Kyle and Kevin.
 
Mrs. Westerburg enjoyed two careers in her lifetime; a political one in the State of 
Louisiana, and a teaching career that spanned the duration of 40 years in both the 
state of Louisiana and Florida.
 
She was a loyal wife to her husband Louis, a retired professional engineer and a 
devoted mother to daughter, Dottie, also a public school teacher , and a son Dick, a 
coporate attorney  and his wife Pam of Austin Texas;  grandchildren, Trey and Afton
Westerburg; two brothers, Bill and George Noble; two sisters, Jean Warren and Clara 
Bowden.
 
Funeral services will be at Riser First National Funeral Home in Winnsboro, on 
Wednesday  May 31, 2000 at 4 p.m.  Burial will follow in the New Winnsboro Cemetery 
with the Rev. John Goodwin officiating.