Obituary of Dewitt Melvin Ezell, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Micro-Flim at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Thursday, December 8, 1955


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Dewitt M. Ezell, 82, Dies at Home in jena

Dewitt Melvin Ezell, 82-year-old resident of Jena, who died at his home Sunday morning shortly before noon was buried Tuesday afternoon at Forsythe cemetery, Jena, following services held in the chapel of Kinner and Stevens Home for Funeral, Jena.

Mr. Ezell, member of a Catahoula-LaSalle parish pioneer family is survived by a brother, Will Ezell, and three sisters, Miss Rowena Ezell, Mrs. Mollie Ezell Heard and Mrs. Aurlia Ezell Wilkerson, all fo Jena.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. W.O. Lynch, pastor of Nolley Memorial Methodist church and the Rev. Otis Spinks, a former Nolley pastor, Interment was under the direction of Kinner and Stevens.