Obituaries:  Miriam LaFitte Edwards, Sabine Parish       E-363
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 17, 1982
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Miriam LaFitte Edwards

  Graveside services were held for Mrs. Miriam LaFitte Edwards,
63, of Pleasant Hill, at 11 a.m., Monday, June 14, at Pleasant
Hill Cemetery. Dr. Adrian Pater, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Pleasant Hill, officiated. Arrangements were under the
direction of Drewett Funeral Home of Mansfield.

  She died at 5:20 p.m., Friday, June 11, at Willis-Knighton
Medical Center in Shreveport, following a lengthy illness. Mrs.
Edwards, business manager for the Pleasant Hill Hospital, was a
member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Retired Officers
Wives Association, and the American Medical Records Association.

  She is survived by four sons, James J. Newsom, James H. Edwards,
Bruce L. Edwards, all of Shreveport, and Glenn K. Edwards of
Virginia Beach, Va.; one daughter, Bonnie E. Hight of Haughton;
three brothers, Robert W. LaFitte of Raymond, Miss., William
"Pete" LaFitte of Haughton, and Glenn LaFitte of Oklahoma City,
Okla.; one sister, Ms. Dorothy LaFitte of Alexandria; and nine
grandchildren.

  The family requests memorials be made to the American Cancer
Society, or charity of donor's choice.