Obit: Miss Melissa Jane Hood, 1969, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Shreveport Times - October, 1969 MISS HOOD, 10 SUCCUMBS, RITES SCHEDULED Miss Melissa Jane Hood, 10, daughter of F. Malcolm Hood, Jr. of Monroe and Janet Garrett Hood of Monroe, died in an Alexandria Hospital Monday, October 27, 1969. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Antioch Cemetery near Ruston under the direction of Spears Funeral Home. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Ed Parks. Survivors include her parents, two sisters, Susan Marie and Amy E. Hood of Monroe; her paternal grandfather F. Malcolm Hood, Sr. of Simsboro, her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Helen K. Garrett of Monroe, her maternal grandfather, Jay Garrett Merrill of Haynesville, her maternal great grandparents Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Kimbell of Haynesville and Mrs. Jim Garrett of Haynesville.