Obituary of BLANCHARD C. SMITH, SR., LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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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.





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Date:   July 14, 1999, Wednesday

Headline:  Area Deaths

Blanchard C. Smith, Sr., 84, of Jena, died at 9:35 a.m., Friday, July 9, 
1999, at the St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria.

He was retired as vice president of Bank of Jena after serving in the banking 
industry for over a half century.  He was also a member of the First Baptist 
Church of Jena.

He was born in Jena on June 17, 1915, to the union of William and Nancy 
Caroline Smith.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 11, at the First Baptist Church in 
Jena with the Revs. Byron Norris, Walter Lloyd and Dominick Dicarlo 
officiating.

Interment followed in the Nolley Memorial Cemetery of Jena under direction of 
Kinner and Stevens Funeral home of Jena.

Survivors include one daughter, Emily Smith Doughty of West Monroe; one son, 
Carl Smith of Jena; two sisters, Oneta Creed of Jena and Sis Tucker of 
Shreveport; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were David Smith, Paul Smith, Wray Page, Jr., Wray Page, III, 
John Ray Peyton, and Chuck Smith.

Honorary pallbearers were deacons of the First Baptist Church of Jena.


(Note:  A photo to be treasured accompanied the obituary.  It is a picture of 
Mr. Smith receiving his mail, the last person to do so, from the old Jena 
Post Office.)