Obituary of Billy G. Pigott, 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.
Wednesday, March 14, 1979


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Billy G. Pigott Of Georgetown Died Saturday

Billy G. Pigott,64, died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 1979, in his
residence at Georgetown.

He was retired from the Farmers Home Administration as housing program chief
for Louisiana. Prior to that, he was a parish supervisor and a district
supervisor with FHA.

He was a member of the Georgetown Baptist Church. A graduate of Mississippi
State University, Pigott was a veteran of World War II and a former high
school agriculture teacher.

Survivors include his wife, Jelly Smith Pigott of Georgetown and five sisters,
Hattie Banks of Memphis, Mildred Ingram of Washington, D. C., and Jessie Merle
Harris, Eloise Sartin and Wilda Pigott, all of Tylertown, Miss.

Mrs. Pigott was girls basketball coach at Jena High School for many years,
leading the Lady Giants to four of their 11 state championships.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Georgetown Baptist Church.

Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery in Pineville under direction of Hixson
Brothers Funeral Home of Alexandria.