Obituary of OLIVIA WRIGHT GARRETT, 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: March 28, 1940

Headline:  Mrs. Olivia Garrett Succumbs to Pneumonia Wed.

Mrs. Olivia Wright Garrett, 62, succumbed to pneumonia at the Baptist 
Hospital in Alexandria Wednesday, March 27 at 9:35 a.m. after several weeks 
illness there.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 28 at 2:30 p.m. at the Jena 
Baptist Church with Rev. J. H. Smith of Gibsland officiating assisted by Rev. 
B. T. Goodwin.  Interment will be made at the Pollock Cemetery near Pollock 
under the direction of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home, Jena.

The deceased was a lifelong resident of LaSalle Parish and a member of the 
First Baptist Church of Jena.  She was married to B. M. Garrett, deceased in 
1902.

Surviving are one brother, Walter Wright of Jena, and three sisters, Mrs. D. 
T. Miles of Midway, Mrs. S. A. Clark of Columbia and Mrs. H. Smith of Jena, 
and a host of other relatives and friends.