Obituary of Laura Mae McGowen, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371 From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Wednesday, May 13, 1998 Many Thanks to The Times - Signal for allowing the following to be added to the Archives. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Laura Mae McGowen Laura Mae McGowen, 72, of Olla, died Wednesday, May 6, 1998, at the Glenwood Regional medical Center in West Monroe. She was born April 8, 1926 in Olla to the union of Fred and Mattie Elliott Tolbert. She was a member of the Pine Hill Baptist Church. Services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 9, at the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Olla with Dr. Claude Hughes officiating. Interment followed in the Olla Cemetery under direction of Riser, Olla. Survivors include two sons, John McGowen and Robert Sherwin, both of West Monroe; one daughter, Lou Antley of West Monroe; one sister, Laverne Ingram of Alexandria; two grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Jimmy McGowen, Lamar Honey, Jerry Ingram, Newt Carpenter, Darren Ingram and Butch Tolbert. Honorary pallbearers were Jay Holton and Tim Murphy.