Obituaries:  Mrs. Thelma Wilson Ashby, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       A-210
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 13, 1993
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Thelma Wilson Ashby

  Funeral services for Mrs. Thelma Louise Wilson Ashby were held
at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 10, in the Hixson Funeral Home Chapel,
with the Rev. Aubrey Boswell officiating. Graveside services were
at 5 p.m., Sunday, in the Wallace Cemetery, in the Evelyn
Community near Mansfield.

  Mrs. Ashby, 65, of Leesville, died at 11 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7,
in the Byrd Regional Hospital, after a lengthy illness.

  Mrs. Ashby was a native of Mansfield, and had lived in the
Leesville area for the past 30 years. She was a member of the
Order of the Eastern Star, and East Leesville Baptist Church for
30 years. She was also a homemaker.

  She was preceded in death by her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. John
B. Wilson Sr., and her brother, Arthur Wilson.

  She is survived by her husband, J. C. (Cliff) Ashby of
Leesville; three daughters, Linda Lievsay of Pasadena, Tex.,
Brenda Boone of Deluth, Minn., and Deborah Phillips of Hornbeck;
one son, James Basil Ashby of Alexandria; two brothers, Bob F.
Wilson of Shreveport; and John B. Wilson Jr. of Lafayette; two
sisters, Yvonne Prudhomme of Mansfield, and JoAnn Guillott of
Beaumont; eight grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and
numerous other relatives.