Obituary of GLADYS WARD SHELLEY, 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 12, 2000, Wednesday Headline: Area Deaths Gladys Ward Shelley, 76, of Jena, died Friday, January 7, 2000, at Rapids Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. She was a retired head start teacher and a Baptist. Services will be held at 1 p.m, Thursday, Jan. 13, at Mars Hill Baptist Church near Jena with Rev. Larry Shelley officiating. Burial will follow in Webster Cemetery of Good Pine under direction of Gayden Funeral Home of Jena. Survivors include one daughter, Sherrie Cain of Arlington, Tx.; five sons, Larry Shelley of Alexandria, Va.; Robert Shelley, Jr., of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Ronald Bruce Shelley of Euless, Tx.; Mikel Shelley of Midwest City, Okla.; and Phil Shelley of Oklahoma City, Okla; one brother, Leo Ward of Bellevue, Wash.; three sisters, Charlene Jones of Jena, Emra Loggins of Ft. Worth, Tx., and Jessie Williams of Fresno, Ca.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.