Obituary of LULA LORRAINE COON, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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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:  November 7, 1957

Headline:  Mrs. Lula Coon, Veteran Teacher in Parish, Dies

Mrs. Lula Lorraine Coon, 48, a lifelong resident of LaSalle Parish and a 
teacher in the Jena Elementary School for the past 17 years, was buried 
Tuesday afternoon following services held at the Nolley Memorial Methodist 
Church in Jena.  Mrs. Coon died Monday morning at the Baptist Hospital in 
Alexandria following a long illness.

The Revs. W. O. Lynch and O. W. Spinks conducted the final rites, with 
interment following in Nolley Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Hixson 
Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.

Due to Mrs. Coon's death, classes at Jena Elementary School were dismissed 
for the day Tuesday and classes at other parish schools in the South end of 
the parish were dismissed an hour early.  Beginning at 3 o'clock Monday 
afternoon, faculty members on two-hour shifts maintained a vigil until 1 
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.

F. H. Shiel, parish superintendent of schools, expressed "the sincere regrets 
and feeling of great loss on the part of the parish school board and all 
school personnel of LaSalle Parish at the untimely death of Mrs. Coon who was 
one of our best teachers."  J. V. Moffett, Jr., president of the school 
board, also extended his sympathy "personally, and on behalf of the school 
board."

Mrs. Coon had taught in the LaSalle Parish public school system for 17 years 
and, as far as records were available for a quick check, all of that time had 
been on the faculty of the Jena Elementary School, Mr. Shiel said.  At the 
close of the 1956-57 school year, her 17th as a teacher, she requested and 
was granted a one-year sabbatical leave, Mr. Shiel said.

A faithful and loyal member of the Methodist Church, Mrs. Coon is survived by 
her husband, Vernon B. Coon of Jena; one daughter, Sandra Nell of Jena; a 
brother, Lanys Jones of Jena; two sisters, Mrs. Ollie Woods and Mrs. Myrtle 
Morris, both of Monroe, and her parents, Mrs. Bethel V. Jones of Monroe and 
W. E. Jones of Jena.

Serving as pallbearers for the final rites were Fred Coon, Jr., a nephew; 
Dargan Brooks, principal of Jena High School; Jeddie Ray Hodges, Jena high 
school vocational agriculture teacher; Milton Swazey, husband of Mrs. Meddie 
Swazey, a fellow faculty member of Mrs. Coon; Lamar Gibson, principal of Jena 
Elementary School, and Sheppard Chevallier, Jimmy Coleman, and Kelly Crews, 
Jena elementary school faculty members.