Obituary of ERNEST DESOTO, 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:  Mach 15, 1962

Headline:  Ernest DeSoto of Jena Succumbs

Ernest DeSoto, 52, of Jena, died Sunday, March 11, at 12:30 pm in a Pineville 
hospital.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 10 am from the Temple Baptist 
Church, with the Rev. K. G. Brooks officiating.  Burial followed in Hair 
Cemetery near Jena under the direction of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Evelyn DeSoto; a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Jones 
of Houston, Texas; three sons, Charles Joseph of Lynn, Mass.; George of New 
Orleans and Randall of Jena; two brothers, Henry DeSoto of Alexandria and 
Joseph DeSoto of the U. S. Navy; two sisters, Mrs. H. A. Berry of Tyler, 
Texas, and Mrs. Orville Boothe of Gretna; and three grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Barney Henderson, J. C. Henderson, Marvin Tarver, Billy 
DeSoto, James Hardy, and J. R. Roy.