Obituary of MATTIE EULA SMITH, 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:  August 30, 2000, Wednesday

Headline: Area Deaths
Sub-Headline:  Mattie Eula Smith

Mattie Eula Smith, 87, of Jena, died at 5:30 p.m., Friday, August 25, 2000, 
at the LaSalle Nursing Home of Jena.

She was a homemaker and member of the Pine Grove Baptist Church.  She was 
born March 3, 1913, at Rhinehart to the union of Thomas and Elizabeth 
Bradford Wheat.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 27, at Pine Grove Baptist Church 
of Rhinehart with the Revs. Preston holder and Joey Paul officiating.

Interment followed in the Pine Grove Cemetery near Rhinehart under direction 
of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include two sons, Bennie Smith and Cecil Smith, both of Jena; three 
brothers, Howard Wheat of Jonesville, Reginald Wheat of Shreveport, and 
Melton Wheat of Jena; seven grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Roy Smith, Jamie Smith, Jackie Morris, Jr., Richard 
Faulkner, Russ Coldiron, Earl Dunn, and Joseph D. Lewis, Jr.