Obituary of ELBERT M. RATCLIFF, 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:  December 6, 1951, Thursday

Headline:  Elbert M. Ratcliff Last Rites Are Held at Alexandria Church

Funeral services for Elbert M. Ratcliff, 42, of 2163 Pope Street, Alexandria, 
who died Nov. 26, at 6:45 a.m. in Hotel Dieu Hospital after an illness of 
several weeks, was held in the Chapel of the Williams Funeral Home, Nov. 27.

Rev. W. S. Haley, pastor of the Magnolia Avenue Baptist Church was the 
officiating minister.  Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Pat Geory, V. J. Ballard, H. S. McIntosh, Edwin White and J. 
Burt Sandifer of Beaumont and J. J. Staff of Port Arthur.

Mr. Ratcliff had lived in Beaumont for the last 25 years.  He was a certified 
public accountant with the firm of Mazur-Stagg Company of Port Arthur at the 
time of his death.  He formerly was an accountant with the Pennsylvania Ship 
Yard.

Mr. Ratcliff was veteran of World War II, serving with the Air Corps at 
Keesler Field in Mississippi.  He was a member of the Beaumont Legion Post.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maxine Ratcliff, a daughter, Jackie May, both of 
Beaumont; father, V. F. Ratcliff of Olla, La.; three sisters, Mrs. Dale 
Roberts of Beaumont; Mrs. Edwin B. White of Lenoir City, Tenn.; and Mrs. W. 
R. White of Holum, La.; a brother, H. E. Ratcliff of Baton Rouge; four 
stepsisters, Mrs. Henry Marringer of Athens; Mrs. R. R. McCarty of Houston, 
Mrs. Truman Bell of Orange and Mrs. Ray Eubanks of Winnsboro.