James Wright Powers - Submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by Reba Powers Cooper 3/31/07

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James Wright Powers - Madison Parish, Louisiana
From Monroe Morning World, April 4, 1968
James Wright Powers, 54, died early Wednesday morning at his residence from an apparent heart attack.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. today in the First Baptist Church here with the Revs. Bobby Brown
and Mack Bomer officiating.
Burial will be in Providence Memorial Cemetery in Tallulah under the direction of Crothers Funeral
Home.
A native of St. Joseph, LA., he had lived in Madison Parish for 38 years.  He owned and operated
Powers Garage.  He was a member of Melbourne Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife Aline Hopkins
Powers, Tallulah; three sons:  James W. "Sonny" Powers, Jr.. Donald Wayne "Donnie" Powers, Fredrick
Andrew "Booby" Powers all of Tallulah; three daughters: Joan Powers and Reba Powers, both of Tallulah,
and Jeanette Bamburg of Winnfield, La.; a brother Charlie Jobe of Tallulah;  four sisters: Nellie
Roser of New Orleans, La., Nannie Sanderson of Vicksburg, Ms., Florence Williams of Transylvania, La.,
and Flora Jobe of Tallulah.  He had four grandchildren. Pallbearers include:  Albert Fondren, Buford
White, Alfred Holmes, A. E. "Boob" Hoenke, Kenneth Smith and James W, Reeves.