Obituary of Charles Payne, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371 From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Micro Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. Many Thanks to The Times - Signal 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 ********************************************** PAYNE, Charles Charles Payne, a retired welder from Caldwell Parish, and a resident of Jena since early this year, died last Friday night, August 16, 1974 at the LaSalle General Hospital. Mr. Payne, a member of the Baptist Church, had moved to Jena early this year after closing his welding shop at Columbia, where he had worked for many years. He and his wife had purchased a home on Carpenter Street in Jena and had been in the process of remodeling the home since they moved to Jena. Funeral services wwere held Monday at the chapel of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home in Jena with Rev. Kenneth Boyd officiating. Interment followed at Jena Cemetery of Jena under direction of Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Myrtle Payne of Jena; two daughters, Mrs. Sherry Herles of Trout and Mrs. Betty Meyer of Kelly; two brothers, Vernon Cooper of Monroe and Ralph Payne of Bastrop; two sisters, Mrs. Alma Kopperel of Florence, Miss. and Mrs. Flo Silvery of Baton Rouge and eight grand- children. (The Jena Times, Thursday, August 22, 1974)