Obituary of Martha Jane Whatley, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Wednesday, May 6, 1998


Many Thanks to The Times - Signal for allowing the following to be added to
the Archives.
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Martha Jane Whatley

Martha Jane Whatley, 100, of trout, died at 11:20 a.m., Tuesday, April 28,
1998 at the LaSalle General Hospital of Jena.

She was a homemaker and was born before the turn of the century and 12 years
before LaSalle Parish was officially created from part of Catahoula Parish in
1910.

Services were held at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 30, in the chapel of Hixson
Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with the Revs. Johnny Lee Dayton and Huey
Tarpley officiating.

Interment followed in the Eden Cemetery of trout under direction of Hixson
Brothers Inc. of Jena.

Survivors include one sister, Mae Whatley of Jena; four grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Jim Justiss, Alan Dayton, Doug Finlay, Jim Morphis, Joe Pugh
and Jack E. Skeen.