Obituary of BETTIE POWELL, 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:  January 30, 1958

Headline:  Mrs. Bettie Powell of Tullos Succumbs

Mrs. Bettie Powell, 86, of Tullos, who died at the Hardtner Memorial Clinic 
in Urania last Thursday afternoon shortly before 5 o'clock, was buried 
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, following graveside services held at the 
Little Star Cemetery near Kelly.

The Rev. O. M. Corley, the Rev. John Love and the Rev. Vannah Claunch 
conducted the final rites, with interment under the direction of Riser and 
Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mrs. Powell had resided in Tullos with a daughter, Mrs. Sammie Fife, for the 
past four or five years and had been in failing health since last October.  
When her condition worsened last Thursday about 10 a.m., she was rushed to 
the clinic at Urania where she died later that afternoon.

Mrs. Powell  is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Minnie Cruse of Ferriday, 
Mrs. Addie Lowe of Kelly, Mrs. Sammie Fife of Tullos, Mrs. Carrie Hayes of 
Urania, and Mrs. Rossie Wilson of Urania; a son, Stanley Powell of Olla; a 
brother, W. W. Brown of Jackson, Miss.; three sisters, Mrs. John McElroy of 
Meridian, Miss., Mrs. Velma Renfroe of Shreveport and Mrs. Frankie Hubbard of 
San Francisco, Calif.; 20 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers for the final rites were six grandsons, Dixie R. 
Wilson, Buddy Wilson, Alvin Cruse, Billy Wayne Fife, Homer Fife and Stanley 
B. Hayes.