Obituaries:  Mrs. Hilda Gay Coleman Booker, Sabine Parish       B-260
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 21, 1999
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Hilda Gay Coleman Booker

  Mrs. Hilda Gay Coleman Booker died July 18, 1999, in Lake
Charles, after a lengthy illness.

  Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, July 21, at
First Baptist Church in Many, with interment following at LaNana
Farms Cemetery. Dr. Edward Scott will officiate.

  Mrs. Booker was born Oct. 2, 1925, in Shongaloo, the youngest
child of Oliver E. and Izora Simms Coleman.

  Survivors include seven children, Norman U. Booker Jr. and wife
Merilyn of Many, June Elaine Booker of Lafayette, J. Gregory
Booker and wife Jan of El Dorado, Ark., S. Page Booker of Lake
Charles, Cynthia Booker Founds and husband Peter of Lake Charles,
Stacey Booker Crumpton and husband Jim of Cabot, Ark., and Nancy
Booker Campbell and husband John of Minden; 18 grandchildren;
four great grandchildren; one sister, Sue Coleman Bailey of
Lubbock, Texas; two brothers, Don S. Coleman, and James S.
Coleman of Shreveport. Mrs. Booker was preceded in death by her
parents; her loving husband, Norman Ural Booker, M.D.; one
sister, June Coleman Fox; and brother, Theus Coleman.

  Pallbearers will be her grandsons.

  The family requests that donations in her memory be made to the
Gideon Foundation at 135 Hickory Drive, Many, La. 71449, or the
charity of the donor's choice.

  Warren Meadows, Many, La.