Obituary of JAMES VIRGIL POSEY, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
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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:  January 20, 1964

Headline:  James Virgil Posey Killed in Wreck

James Virgil Posey, 66, was fatally injured in a two-car collision near his 
home in Jackson, Miss., at 1:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 24.

The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Monday in the Wright-Ferguson Funeral Home 
of Jackson, Miss., with burial in the Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery in 
Jackson.

Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Cleo Brooks Posey of Jackson, Miss.; one son, 
Franz A. Posey of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and three grandchildren; three brothers, 
C. L. Posey of Olla, C. E. Posey of Arcadia and Dr. Shelton Posey of 
Riverside, Calif.

Mr. Posey was the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Posey, natives of 
Mississippi, but well known in Louisiana where he was pastor of several 
prominent Baptist churches, one of which was the First Baptist Church of Jena 
and another, the First Baptist Church of Winnfield.