Obit: Corrie Bennett Wesson, 1999, Lincoln Parish, LA  
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291




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           The Ruston Daily Leader, Thursday, November 25, 1999
                                
                     Corrie Bennett Wesson

Services for Mrs. Corrie Bennett Wesson, age 87, formerly of
Ruston, will be at 10 a.m. on November 27, 1999, at Burkhalter
Chapel at Trinity United Methodist Church in Ruston with Rev. 
Rolly Walker officiating, assisted by Dr. Doug McGuire.  Burial
will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick 
Funeral Home of Ruston.

 Mrs. Wesson died Monday, November 22, 1999, after an extended
illness.  She was born February 9, 1912, in Magnolia, Ark., where
she attended Southern Arkansas University before her marriage in
1934.  Mrs. Wesson had been a resident of Lincoln Parish and Ruston
for almost 50 years before moving to Shreveport in 1995.  While in
Ruston she was a member of Sunset Garden Club and with her husband,
a member of Ruston Country Club.  She had been a member of Trinity
United Methodist Church since 1948.

 Her beloved husband, George Dudney Wesson, her parents, and two
brothers preceded her in death.

 Mrs. Wesson is survived by her two daughters, Elizabeth Dawn and
husband William Cooper of Chandler, Texas, and Gale Wesson Bridger
of Shreveport; three grandchildren, R. Jeffery Bridger and his wife
Hope of New Orleans, Michael E. Cooper of Atlantic Beach, Fla., and
Brenda Cooper and her husband Ken Stewart of Irving, Texas; five
great grandchildren, Sean and Trey Cooper, Beth Stewart, and Samuel
and William Bridger; two sisters, Mable B. Young of Cheneyville,
and Mavis B. Warren of El Dorado, Ark.; two sisters-in-law, Ruth
Bennett of El Dorado, and Beth Bennett of Virginia Beach, Va.

 The family of Mrs. Wesson will receive friends for visitation from
4-7 p.m. Friday evening.