Obituary of EMMETT YANCEY, 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:  October 24, 1957

Headline:  Emmett Yancey, 67, Dies at Goodpine; Rites Held Monday

Emmett Yancey, 67, a resident of Goodpine since 1908, died at his home there 
Oct. 20 at 3:27 p.m., following a long illness.

Funeral services were held Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. at the Goodpine Baptist Church 
and wee conducted by the Rev. R. E. Hampton, the Rev. C. E. Woods and the 
Rev. P. E. Pitre.  Interment followed in the Jena Cemetery under the 
direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.

Mr. Yancey, a planer mill superintendent, is survived by his wife, Mrs. 
Emmett Yancey of Goodpine; one son, Clyde E. Yancey of Alvin, Tex.; his 
mother, Mrs. Della Yancey of Glenmora; seven brothers, Herman, Bennie and 
Leroy, all of Lake Charles; Willie and Bert of Glenmora, Jimmie of Freeport, 
Tex., and Fred of Winnfield, and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Lou Kaplain of 
Newton, Tex.; Mrs. Ethel Shows of Forest Hill, Mrs. Myrtle Jeffers of 
Velasco, Tex., and Mrs. Stella Ferguson of Glenmora.

Serving as pallbearers for the final rites were Lamar Windham, Gillis 
Windham, Robert Windham, W. A. Cornett, Lavelle Ryland, Willard Kelly, Harvel 
Gray and Jimmie Pitre.