Obituary of Ernest Eugene Neal, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Kathy L. Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371 

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: April 17, 1991

Headline: Ernest Eugene Neal

Ernest Eugene Neal, 76, of Albuquerque, New Mexico and a native of Jena, died
at 2:12 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 1991 at the U.S. veterans Affairs Hospital in
Albuquerque from complications following surgery.

He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served with an armored division in Europe
during World War II.

Neal was born at Columbia and moved with his family to Jena where, at the age
of 12, began his 53 year career in the newspaper business when he joined his
older brother, the late Louie J. Neal, at the Jena Times and Olla-Tullos
Signal, where he worked until entering the Army in 1943.

After his return he worked for newspapers in various Louisiana cities until
1953 when he moved to Albuquerque and began his 26 year career with The
Albuquerque Journal, retiring in 1980.

Services were at the French Mortuary chapel, with Dr. J. Curtis Goldman,
temple Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed in Sunset Memorial Park,
Albuquerque.

He is survived by his wife, Rita Neal; one daughter, Carol Cappuccilli Bejcek;
a son, Jerry J. Neal, all of Albuquerque; two sisters, Doris Neal Risley and
Lula Neal Coats, both of Jena; and six grandchildren.