Ethel I. Higginbotham; Jefferson Davis Parish Obits, Louisiana Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell Source: American Press; Date: 02/13/2002; Page & Section: 2A Submitted September 2004 ******** Legal Notice ******** Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ~~~~~~~~~ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://theusgenweb.net/copyright.htm ~~~~~~~~~ Ethel I. Higginbotham WELSH -- Funeral services for Ethel Irene Hebert Higginbotham, 100, of Long-view, Texas, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, from Our Lady of Seven Dolors Catholic Church. The Rev. Herbert May will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home. Visitation is 3:30-9 p.m. today, with a rosary at 7 p.m., and from 8 a.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Mrs. Higginbotham died at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002, in Welsh. She was a native of Welsh. She was a homemaker. She was a former town clerk and was Welsh's first librarian. She was a parade marshal for the Welsh Fourth of July parade. She was an oil painter and a member of the Oil Painting and China Painting Guild. She was a member of Our Lady of Seven Dolors Catholic Church, the Ladies Altar Society, Catholic Daughters of America and the church rosary group.