Obituary of JOHN HENRY LEES, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  

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Date: January 12, 2000

Headline:  Area Deaths

John Henry Lees, 80, of Jena, died at 2:25 p.m., Friday, January 7, 2000, at 
the St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria.

He was a retired postal service employee, a member of Bellevue Baptist Church 
in Jena, a member of Michael Dempsey lodge #327 F&AM, and a veteran of the 
United States Navy.

He was born June 24, 1919, in Catahoula Parish to the union of William and 
Sallie Edwards Lees.

Services were held at 3 p.m., Sunday, January 9, at the chapel of Kinner and 
Stevens Funeral Home in Jena with the Revs. Byron Norris and Albert Vickers 
officiating.

Interment followed in the Jena Cemetery under direction of Kinner and Stevens 
Inc. of Jena.

Survivors include two daughters, Glenda Kay Neely of Jena and Sallie Allen of 
Deville; two sisters, Rita Farley of Jena and Jewell Breithaupt of Winnfield; 
four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.