Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....KIFER, MARY EMMA TINDELL February 26, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006026 March 3, 2009, 4:30 am News Star World - March 3, 2009 MARY EMMA TINDELL KIFER Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home Tallulah, LA Funeral services for Mary Emma Tindell Kifer, age 77, will be held Monday, March 2, 2009 at 11:00AM at St. Joseph Baptist Church in St. Joseph, LA. Visitation will be Monday from 10:00 a.m. until time of services, with Pastor Larry Foster officiating. Burial will follow in Legion Cemetery in Newellton, LA. Mrs. Kifer was born in Newellton, LA September 9, 1931 to Albert and Mary Elizabeth Tindell. She graduated from Newellton High in 1951 and married Cecil Lee Kifer, Sr. November 3rd of that same year. Mrs. Kifer was a homemaker and resident of St. Joseph from 1951 until 2002 when she moved to Baton Rouge, LA. Mrs. Kifer died February 26, 2009 at the Butterfly Wing of the in-patient hospice unit of the Hospice of Baton Rouge. Mrs. Kifer is preceded in death by her husband Cecil Lee Kifer, Sr.; her parents Albert and Mary Stone Tindell; brother Morris "Hoss" Tindell; father and mother-in-law Louis Allen and Effie Kifer; brothers and sisters-in-law Nathan and Ruth Kifer, Ollie Kifer Brown and Fred Brown and Franklin "Frank" Kifer. Mrs. Kifer is survived by on daughter Elizabeth Routon and her husband Robert Glen Routon of Baton Rouge, LA; two sons Cecil Lee Kifer, Jr. and his wife Connie of St. Joseph, LA and Brian Wade Kifer and wife Pam of St. Joseph, LA; five grandchildren Crawford Wade Kifer and wife Brandy of Vidalia, LA, Tucker Lee Kifer of Ruston, LA, Kelsey Lynn Kifer of Clinton, MS, Nikki Peeples Laboda and husband Steve of Ringgold, GA and Brett Peeples of Tallulah, LA; three great-grandchildren Nicholas, Lucas and Thomas Laboda of Ringgold, GA; siblings Margie Tindell Redditt and husband John of Hendersonville, TN, Mardell "Sissy" Tindell Osborne and husband Warren of Napels, FL and Albert "Buddy" Tindell, Jr. and wife Lady Tindell of St. Joseph, LA; numerous nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Crawford Wade Kifer, Tucker Lee Kifer, Danny Kifer, Nathan Odell "Sonny" Kifer, Jr., Allen Brown, David Redditt, John B. "Terry" Redditt and Rickey Lowery. Honorary pallbearers will be Mr. Whitfield Jones and Will Johnson. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/obits/k/kifer3136gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb