Obituaries:  Mrs. Ruth Byrd Enis, Sabine Parish       E-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 11, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Ruth Byrd Enis (Photo)

  Services for Mrs. Ruth Byrd Enis, 75, of Bossier City, were held
at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, June 6, at Rose-Neath's Bossier Chapel.
Dr. Fred Lowery, pastor of First Baptist Church of Bossier City,
officiated. Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport.

  Mrs. Enis, a resident of Bossier City for 55 years, died
Wednesday, June 3, 1987, in Many, La., following a sudden
illness. She was born in Florien, La., and began teaching school
at Zwolle in 1929. She retired from school teaching in 1977,
after many years at Bossier High. She was a member of First
Baptist Church, Bossier, where she taught a Sunday School class
for over 30 years. She was a member of the Diamond Set National
Retired Teacher's Assn., State Retired Teacher's Assn., and
Bossier Retired Teacher's Assn., also Alpha Delta Kappa, Lambda
Chapter, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Colonial
Dames, OES Chapter No. 175, and the Shreveport Coin Club.

  She was preceded in death by her parents, Martha Ann Hardin
Byrd, (died 1962), and Lafayette Washington Byrd, (died in 1942).
She is survived by four sons, Jim Enis of Houston, Tex., Richard
Enis of San Diego, Calif., Bill Enis of Dallas, Tex., and Mike
Enis of Atlanta, Ga.; three sisters, Emma Oxley of Letha, Idaho,
Eula Mae Alford, and Pearl Patrick, both of Many; 13
grandchildren; six great grandchildren; and a great number of
nieces and nephews.

  Pallbearers were John McConathy, Mark Hutchinson, L. M. "Bo"
Ratcliff, Joey Enis, Doug Bowen, and Gerald Pruett.