Obituary of MARY ALAFAIR MILLER, 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 3, 1932

Headline:  "Grandma" Miller is Called by Death on Friday, October 28

Mrs. Mary Alafair Miller, 84 years of age, died at 3 am on Friday, October 
28, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Kosserog, where she had been 
confined to her bed for the past seven weeks as the result of a burn and 
other complications.

Mrs. Miller, widow of the late Simeon Miller, had been a resident of this 
section for the past 27 years.  She formerly resided in Winn Parish.  She was 
a member of the Baptist Church and enjoyed a large number of friends and 
acquaintances to whom she was affectionately known as "Grandma" Miller.

Funeral services were conducted from the Jena Methodist Episcopal Church 
Saturday, with Rev. L. D. Posey, pastor of Jena Baptist Church, officiating.  
Interment was in Nolley Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Miller is survived by five daughters and three sons, who are Mrs. A. J. 
Cain, Sikes; Mrs. Tom Thornton, Mounds, La.; Mrs. J. A. Wall, Delhi; Mrs. 
Frank Kosserog and Mrs. C. A. Miller, of Jena; and S. J. Miller, Shreveport; 
M. E. Miller, Winnsboro; and J. H. Miller of Jena.