Obituaries:  Jesse Clarence Ashby, Sabine Parish       A-210
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 6, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Jesse Clarence Ashby

  Mr. Jesse Clarence Ashby, 77, of Blanchard, died at 4:50 a.m.,
Friday, Oct. 31, at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center, following
a brief illness.

  Funeral services were held Monday, Nov. 3, at 10 a.m., at the
First Baptist Church of Blanchard. The Rev. Lawrence Cochrell,
the Rev. M. H. Godwin, and the Rev. Gene Lindsey officiated.
Burial was held at the Blanchard Cemetery, under the direction of
the Rose-Neath Funeral Home.

  Mr. Ashby was a native of Sabine Parish, and a resident of
Blanchard for 36 years. He was a member of the Blanchard Church
of the Nazarene, and a retired Caddo Parish Highway Department
employee.

  Mr. Ashby is survived by his widow, Gladys Ellzey Ashby; three
daughters, Loretta Hayes, Bobbie Hayes of Blanchard, Margarete
Helms, Tyler, Tex.; one son, James Ashby of Blanchard; seven
brothers; two sisters; fifteen grandchildren, and seven great
grandchildren.