Obituary of LOIS M. NEWSOM, 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. Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for allowing the following to be added to the Archives. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Date: July 14, 1999, Wednesday Headline: Area Deaths Lois M. Newsom, 84, of Grayson, died Sunday, July 11, 1999, at the Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria following an extended illness. She was born September 6, 1914, in Winn Parish to the union of John and Flora Schumaker Newsom and was a member of the Springhill Baptist Church near Kelly. She was a homemaker. Services were held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 13, at the chapel of Riser Funeral home in Columbia with Rev. J. D. Enterkin officiating. Interment followed in the Hebron Cemetery west of Grayson under direction of Riser Funeral Home, Inc., of Columbia. Survivors include two brothers, Wilbur Newsom of Pineville and Paul Newsom of Tullos; two sisters, Odelia McCollum of Grayson and Lucille Taylor of Pineville; and a host of nieces and nephews.