Obituaries:  Mrs. Paul Ebarb, Sabine Parish       E-161
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 25, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Paul Ebarb

  Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Ferguson Ebarb, 78, of
Zwolle, were held at the St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Zwolle
on Monday, Dec. 22, with Monsignor Matthew Scanlon of Zwolle, and
Monsignor Geroge Martinez of St. Matthew of Monroe officiating.
Burial was in the St. Joseph's Cemetery, under the direction of
the Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Mrs. Ebarb died suddenly at her home on Saturday, Dec. 20, at
8:30 a.m.

  She was the widow of the late Paul Ebarb, and the daughter of
the late John Ferguson, and Josephine Sepulvado.

  A lifelong resident of Zwolle, she was born on August 14, 1902.

  She was a member of the Ladies Altar Society of St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, the American Legion Auxiliary, and twice named a
Gold Star Mother; and a member of the Knights of Columbus Ladies'
Auxiliary. She has always been an active worker in her church,
and in local civic activities.

  A rosary was said for Mrs. Ebarb in the Warren Meadows Funeral
Chapel at 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 21.

  She was preceded in death by three sons, Ensign Jesse Patrick
Ebarb, Paul Fredrick Ebarb, and Private Joseph Donald Ebarb.

  She is survived by six daughters, Ruth Loupe, Kathryn Boudreaux,
and Vivian Ebarb, all of Zwolle. Theo Ezernack of Natchitoches,
Polly Moyer of Baton Rouge, and Frances Bybee of Albuquerque, New
Mexico; eight brothers, Murry Ferguson of Baton Rouge, Eugene
Ferguson of Bearden, Fla., John H. Ferguson of Fallchurch, Va.,
George E. Ferguson of Hattiesburg, Miss., James Ferguson of
Slidell, J. Roland Ferguson of Richmond, Tex., Jesse P. Ferguson
of New Orleans, and Michael W. Ferguson of Norman, Okla.; three
sisters, Lola Castillo of Lake Charles, Louise Flanders of New
Orleans, and Molly Ferguson of Kenner; a stepmother, Inez
Ferguson of Kenner; seventeen grandchildren, and eighteen great
grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were her grandsons.