Obituary of MARIE LITTLE SWAYZE, 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 23, 1941

Headline:  Harrisonburg Woman Succumbs to Burns, Sunday, Jan. 19

Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Little Swayze, 27 years old, who was fatally 
injured at her home Sunday, January 19, when she caught fire and was 
immediately rushed to the Ferriday Hospital where she died later, were held 
January 20, at Harrisonburg Baptist Church with Rev. Burton Miley of 
Harrisonburg, Rev. Finley Tinnin of Jena, Rev. Shirley Briggs of Shreveport, 
and Rev. John Walters of Shreveport and Rev. Sensinstaffer of Ferriday 
officiating.

Mrs. Swayze was a member of the Baptist Church of Harrisonburg.  She was, 
before her marriage to Boatner Swayze on July 12, 1936, Miss Marie Little.  
She was born at Rhinehart and came to Harrisonburg from Manifest where her 
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Little, reside.

Those surviving her death are: her husband, Mr. Boatner Swayze and her two 
year old daughter, Ruby Nell, of Harrisonburg; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Little; one sister, Lois Little; and four brothers, Jesse Little, Louis 
Little, Milton Little and Cecil Little, all of Manifest.

Interment took place at the Oak Grove Cemetery at Rhinehart with Kinner and 
Stevens Funeral Home of Jena in charge.  Pallbearers were Jack Adams, J. O. 
Shelvick, Ed Trichel, Herman LaPrarie, G. O. McGuffie and W. C. Brown.