Obituaries:  Ralph E. Bierden, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       B-635
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 24, 1975
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Ralph E. Bierden

  Ralph E. Bierden, 49, died Tuesday, April 22, in a hospital,
following a brief illness.

  Funeral services will be at 3 p.m., Thursday, April 24, in the
Rockett-Nettles Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be in Beulah
Cemetery.

  Bierden was a native of Natchitoches Parish, and a resident of
Red River Parish, for a number of years.

  He was the manager of the Randolph Marston Farms, president of
the Red River Co-op, a member of the Red River Parish Catlemen's
Association, the Red River Farm Bureau, member of the board of
directirs of the Red River Parish Fair Association. He was a 32nd
Mason, and a shriner, and a member of the Jordan Ferry Baptist
Church.

  Survivors include his widow; three sons, Dale Bierden, Kenneth
Bierden, and Loyd Bierden, all of Coushatta; father, J. T.
Bierden Sr. of Coushatta; one brother, J. T. Bierden Jr. of
Coushatta; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Downs, and Mrs. Trixie
May, both of Shreveport; and Dixie Mary of Pleasant Hill.