Obituary of LESLIE EARL POE, 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:  February 2, 1928

Headline:  Earl Poe Buried in Glenmora Cemetery on Last Wednesday

A sad event occurred at 8:30 p.m. on January 23rd when the death of Leslie 
Earl Poe was announced from the hospital in Alexandria.  Mr. Poe, who was a 
World War veteran, had been in bad health for sometime, but friends and 
relatives had believed that a change for the better seemed to occur just 
before his demise.

Mr. Poe was born in Boyce, Louisiana, twenty-eight years ago.  At the 
outbreak of the World War he was a student in Georgia Tech.  Shortly after 
enlisting in the Army, he was married to Bessie Marie Thompson, daughter of 
Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Thompson, of Jena, who was a teacher in the Glenmora High 
School.  The Poe family had been residents of Glenmora for sometime, having 
moved there from Boyce.

Funeral services were held in Glenmora Wednesday afternoon, services being 
conducted by the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Poe 
was a staunch member.  Surviving him are his wife and three children, Leslie 
Earl Jr., Rose Marie and Betty Lou, besides a host of other relatives.  The 
Times as well as the many friends in Jena extends sympathy to the family.