Obituary of Mary Lou Young Sykes, 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 ********************************************** SYKES, Mary Lou Young Mary Lou Young Sykes, 61, of Tullos, died at 10:50 a.m., Thursday, March 19, 1998, in St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria. She was a homemaker and member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Jena. Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 21, at Tullos First Baptist Church in Tullos with Rev. James Brown officiating. Interment followed in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery of Jena under direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena. Survivors include three daughters, Lavinia Sykes and Debbie Rae Sykes, both of Tullos and Shari Higgs of Winnfield; one son, Clay Randall Sykes of Tullos; her mother, Mildred Hanes Young of Jena; three sisters, Susie Thompson and Lillie Arnold, both of Jena and Jo Ann Wilbanks of Redwater, Tx.; two brothers, Robert Young of Tullos and Sam Young of Jena; and three grand- children. Pallbearers were Leroy henderson, Ed Todd, Leon Sykes, Randall Higgs, Scott Hughes and Jerry Harris. (The Jena Times, Wednesday, March 25, 1998)