Obituary of MAUD JACKSON BENSON, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  April 13, 1967, Thursday

Headline:  Mrs. M. J. Benson Dies at Jena Monday Morning

Mrs. Maud Jackson Benson, 93, of Tullos died at Golden Age Nursing Home in 
Jena Monday, April 10th.

Mrs. Benson died at 2:40 am.  She was a housewife and had been a resident of 
Tullos since 1927.

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 10:00 am at Hixson Brothers Funeral 
Home, Jena, with the Rev. George Sherman of Olla Methodist Church 
officiating.  Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery at Pineville.  Graveside 
services were held by Rev. Sherman. 

Survivors are one son, Jackson Arthur Benson of Shreveport; one brother, Guy 
M. Jackson of Ferriday; three sisters, Mrs. Ida Bodle of Beaumont, Tex., Mrs. 
Edith Walden of Kennett, Mo., and Mrs. Beth McKelvey of St. Louis, Mo.; and 
three grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Al D. Cobb, Sam Evans, Jimmie Bardin, Billy Ray McKinney, 
Barney Basham, T. O. Watson, and D. C. Shaw.

Honorary pallbearers were Glen Drewett, Owen Jones, Orrin Capps, and O. G. 
Milam.