Obituary of MATTIE PRITCHARD, 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: January 5, 2000, Wednesday Headline: Area Deaths Mattie Pritchard, 103, died at 9:57 a.m., Thursday, December 30, 1999, in LaSalle Nursing Home of Jena. She was a homemaker and died two days short of living in three centuries. Services were held at 2 p.m., Friday, December 31, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with the Revs. Ricky Gresham and P. A. "Fox" Paul officiating. Interment followed in Collins Cemetery of Jena under direction of Hixson Brothers, Inc., of Jena. Survivors include two sisters, Lillie Maude Pritchard and Marie Simons, both of Jena; four nieces and one nephew. Pallbearers were Andy Girlinghouse, Vernon Parker, Kenny McMillin, Donald Simmons, Jesse Cooper, and Dwan Stringer.