Obituaries:  Minnie Cole Flournoy, Sabine Parish       F-465
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 3, 1993
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Minnie Cole Flournoy

  Services for Mrs. Minnie Cole Flournoy, 76, were held at 10
a.m., Tuesday, March 2, 1993, at Rose-Neath's Marshall Street
Chapel. Officiating was the Rev. Barry Hughes, associate pastor
of First United Methodist Church, assisted by Dr. D. L. Dykes,
pastor emeritus of First United Methodist Church. Entombment was
at Forest Park Mausoleum.

  Mrs. Flournoy, born June 16, 1916, at Pargoud Plantation in
Monroe, La., was a former resident of Monroe, and had lived in
Shreveport all of her married life. She died suddenly at home,
after a brief illness, February 28, 1993. Mrs. Flournoy, a
housewife, graduated from the All Saints High School in
Mississippi, and attended the University of Mississippi, where
she was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. She was a member of
the First United Methodist Church, DAR, Junior League, Woman's
Department Club, and Colonial Dames.

  She was preceded in death by her husband, John Wise Flournoy
Jr., and three sisters, Georgine Holmes, Mable Ratliff, and
Frances Smelser.

  Survivors include one daughter, Frances Flournoy of Shreveport;
two sons and daughters-in-law, Dan Flournoy and wife Ruth of
Houston, Tex., Cole Flournoy and wife Cornell of Shreveport;
grandchildren, Sarah and John Flournoy II of Houston, Tex.,
Millie and Grady Flournoy of Shreveport; niece, Charlotte Smith
of Columbia, La.; nephew, Shove Holmes of Zwolle, La.; and a very
special friend, Janie Davis Flournoy of Shreveport.

  Pallbearers were Bob Clifton, John Clifton, Charles Flournoy,
Clay Flournoy, Craig Flournoy, Shove Holmes, David Malone, John
Nicholson, George Smelser, and Perry Smith.

  Honorary pallbearers were Jake Bosley, Jack Beaird, Bob Davis,
Delton Harrison, Claude Rives III, Lewis Robinson, Armand L.
Roos, and Armand W. Roos.