Obit: Willa Dee Chelette McManus, Grant Parish La
Submitted by Houston Tracy Jr.


The Colfax Chronicle
1935 (Complete not written)

Former librarian, Helen Sorrell, at the Grant Parish Library had gone through
some of the microfilm of the newspaper files of the Chronicle and made copies
of obituaries and/or news items, which led to death.
These were found in a folder on the book shelf at that library on a research
trip there 13 February 1999.
Copies were made and then extracted to post here in the LaGenWeb archives for
Grant and Caddo Parishes.
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Mrs. V.C. McManus Dies At Port Arthur, Texas

     Mrs. V.C. McMans (sic) (nee Willa Dee Chelette), aged 28 of Port Arthur,
Texas, died at 3 p.m., Saturday, (April 19, 1935) at St. Mary's hospital
there, after an illness of but one day.
     Mrs. McManus was a native of Grant Parish, having been born at Verda, La. 
About eight years ago, whe went to Port Arthur to make her home.
     She is survived by her husband, V.C. McManus, one daughter, Burna (sic)
Dean and one son, Charles, all of Port Arthur.  She leaves her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J.W. Chelette of Port Arthur; three sisters: Mrs. E.B. Maseburg of
Montgomery, La.; Mrs. D.L. Smith and Mrs. Leland Lacy and two brothers, Hurd
(sic) and Leo Chelette, all of Port Arthur.
     Mrs. McManus was a member of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church in Port
Arthur.
     Funeral services were held from the Grammier Chapel at 4 p.m., Sunday
with Rev. S.W. Cowles officiating.  Interment was made in the Greenlawn
Cemetery, near Port Arthur, Texas.