Obituary of MELISSA MARGARET DAWSON, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
39503 

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 28, 1957

Headline:  Mrs. Dawson, 85, Dies at Jena Home; Funeral is Saturday

Mrs. Melissa Margaret Dawson, 85, who died at her home in Jena last Thursday 
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock was buried Saturday morning.

Services were held at Nolley Memorial Methodist Church in Jena at 10 a.m., 
with the Rev. W. O. Lynch and the Rev. Baker Boddie conducting the final 
rites.  Interment followed in the Forsythe Cemetery of Jena under the 
direction of Kinner and Stevens Home for Funerals.

Mrs. Dawson, a member of the Methodist Church is survived by two daughters, 
Mrs. Bessie Walker of Jena, and Mrs. Mary Peyton of California;  a brother, 
Allen King of Jena, and two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Honorary pallbearers named by the family were Dr. J. A. Coleman, Oscar 
Thompson, G. R. Russell, Sim Butler, Howard Davis, H. B. Dodson, S. S. 
Andrews, P. S. Gaharan, Jr., O. J. Evans, Al M. Cobb, A. I. Breithaupt, J. H. 
Russell, Clyde Russell, E. E. Jones, John W. Hailey, and W. H. Baker.

Active pallbearers were Edgar Coleman, Murl Windham, Tom Burch, Barney 
Basham, Jack Honeycutt, and Ellis Lawrence.