EFFIE QUEEN Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La.

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.

28 Oct 2004


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October 21. 2004 12:00PM

Effie Queen						[Photo]

Effie Woods Queen, 87, a native and resident of Thibodaux, died Oct. 16, 2004.

Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Morning Star Baptist Church in 
Thibodaux.

A religious service will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at the church.

A dismissal service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, with burial at the church 
cemetery.

She is survived by her daughters, Eva Shanklin and Effie Price of Thibodaux, 
Betty Antoine of Lawton, Okla., and Gwendolyn Queen of Baton Rouge; sons, Alvin 
and Ernest Queen of Thibodaux, Oliver Queen Sr. of Baton Rouge, Louis Queen of 
Austin, Texas, and Leonard Queen of Atlantic City, N. J.; sister, Jessie Mae 
Dyer of Baton Rouge; brothers, Alfred Woods of San Francisco and Louis Woods of 
Thibodaux; 38 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-
grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Queen Jr.; parents, James Sr. 
and Ida Woods; sister, Lottie Allen; and brothers, Joseph, James, John and 
Jessie Woods.

She was a longtime deaconess at Morning Star Baptist Church and enjoyed baking 
and babysitting her grandchildren.

Williams and Southall Funeral Home of Thibodaux is in charge of arrangements.