Obit: Annis Ella Cawthon, 1999, Lincoln Parish, LA 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291


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The Ruston Daily Leader, October 27 1999


                       Annis Ella Cawthon
                                
Services for Annis Ella Cawthon, 90, of Ruston will be held at 2
p.m. October 28,1999, in the Trinity United Methodist Church.
Officiating will be Rev. Fred Wideman and the Rev. Rolly Walker.

Interment will be in Doyline Cemetery in Doyline under the
direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, of Ruston.

Miss Cawthon died October 26,1999, in Ruston after a lengthy
illness.

Miss Cawthon was educated in Bossier and Webster Parish Schools and
at Louisiana Tech University (BS 1929, MS 1959) with additional
work at Auburn University and Tulane University.  Miss Cawthon was
a teacher of mathematics in Jackson and Webster Parishes from 1929-
1959, assistant professor of mathematics at Louisiana Tech
University from l959-1974, and she was a member of numerous
professional organizations such as Delta Kappa Gamma, Mortar Board,
and Phi Kappa Phi.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church where she was
an active worker in sunday School and women's studies.

She is preceded in death by her parents, James Alexander and Maggie
Dance Cawthon; her brother, Dr. John Ardis Cawthon; and a nephew
John Robert Cawthon.

    Miss Cawthon is survived by a sister, Lee Cawthon McIntyre of
Doyline; a brother, James Dance Cawthon and his wife Juanita Davis
Cawthon Of Shreveport; a sister-in-law, Mrs. John Ardis Cawthon of
Ruston, a newphew, Richard James Cawthorn of Jackson, MS; two
nieces: Marilyn McIntyre Mayfield and husband Earl Mayfield of
Ruston and Elisabeth Cawthon and husband John Stephen Saunders of
Coppell, Texas; two great nieces, Beth Mayfield Gearheard and
husband Nall Gearheard of New Orleans, and Lillie Saunders of
Coppell, Texas.

Pallbearers will be Gary Acklin, Bob Berguson, Dr. Jack Canterbury,
Carroll Cochran, Jerry Griffin, R. Chauncy Howe, James Justice and
Dr. Wesley Lee.

    Honorary pallbearers will be Miss Annis' former colleagues of
 the Louisiana Tech University Department of Mathematics and
 Lincoln General Hospice volunteers and staff.

 Visitation will be October 27,1999, from 6 until 8:00 p.m.

 Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity United Methodist
Church, to the Annis Cawthon Scholarship Fund at Louisiana Tech
University, or to the charity of the donor's choice.