Obit: Bertha O. Cruse, 1999, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 




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         2A The Ruston Daily Leader, Sunday, September 19, 1999
                                                               

                        Bertha 0. Cruse
                                
 Services for Bertha D. Cruse, 95, of Ruston, will be held at 1
p.m. Monday, September 20,1999, at the Temple Baptist Church
Chapel.  Officiating will be Dr. B. Gray Allison.  Interment will
be in the Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick
Funeral Home of Ruston.

 Mrs. Cruse died Friday, Sept. 17, 1999, at her daughter's home in
Tennessee following a brief illness.

 Mrs. Cruse was a member of Temple Baptist Church for more than 72
years and served as a Sunday School teacher for more than 50 years. 
She and her husband, D. M. Cruse, served Ruston in several
businesses through the years.  Her father, George Curtis Odom, was
a Baptist minister in north Louisiana.

 Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Voncille Cruse and B.
Gray Allison of Memphis, Tenn.; two sisters, Audie Roberson of
Houston and Faye Ellis of Fordyce, Ark.; three grandchildren,
Suzanne Grigsby of Memphis; Charlotte Miller of Little Rock, Ark.;
and Gray M. Allison of Memphis; seven great-grandchildren and one
great-greatgranddaughter.

 The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Kilpatrick
Funeral Home in Ruston.

 Pallbearers will be Larry Jarrell, Randy Moore, Charles Hoffman,
Ray Miller, Bob McLeane and Dwight Anderson.

 Memorials may be made to the Mid-America Baptist Theological
Seminary, 2216 Germantown Rd. South, Germantown, Tenn., 38138.