Obit: Lela Mae Atkins, 1999, Lincoln Parish, LA  
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291




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              The Ruston Daily Leader, Friday, November 5, 1999

                        Lela Mae Atkins

Services for Lela Mae Atkins, 86, of Ruston, were held November 5,
1999, at 10 a.m. at Clay United Methodist Church with Rev.  Ken
Klemme and Troy Garrett officiating.

Burial followed in Wesley Chapel under the direction of Edmonds
Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

Mrs. Atkins died Wednesday, November 3,1999, at Longleaf Care Cen-
ter.

Mrs. Atkins was preceded in death by her parents; Sam & Selma
Ziegler Goss, husband, C. E. Atkins; three brothers, Bill, Dick,
and Wilbur Goss; one grandaughter; and one great grandaughter.

She attended school at Elmore Elementary in Clay, and graduated
from Ansley High School in 1932.

On October 22, 1934, she was married to Ollie Elvin Atkins in Jack-
son Parish.She was a lifelong member of Clay United Methodist
Church.

She is survived by two sons, Carl Atkins and Don Atkins of Clay; a
daughter, Peggy A. Worley of Clay; a brother, R. L. Goss of Ruston;
three sisters, Joyce Colvin of Ruston, Juanita Prohn of Witchita,
Kansas; and Martha Richards of Ruston; 9 grandchildren; 12 great
grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Gary Boone, Greg Freeman, Robert Goss, Butch
Haughton.  John Kavanaugh, and Lloyd Webb.