Obituaries:  Thomas A. Tommy Fountain, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       F-535
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 27, 1988
Submitted by: Ruth Estess
              restess42@cs.com




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The Sabine Index - July 27, 1988

  Thomas A. "Tommy" Fountain

  Services for Mr. Thomas A. "Tommy" Fountain, 74, of Benson, were
held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24, at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home
Chapel in Mansfield. The Rev. Richard Plunckett, pastor of Old
Union Baptist Church, where Mr. Fountain was a member,
officiated. Burial was at Barber Cemetery near Lula Community.

  Family received friends after 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral
home.

  Mr. Fountain died Thursday, July 21, 1988 at Schumpert Medical
Center in Shreveport after a long illness. He was retired from
Shell Oil Co. He was a Mason and member of the Mitchell Masonic
Lodge #252 of Converse.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Reky Fountain of Benson; two
sons, Douglas Fountain and T. A. Fountain, Jr., and two
daughters, Georgia Pullen and Harriet Davidson, all of Michigan;
three stepchildren, Reta McGuire of North Carolina, Reggie Roe
and Sammy Roe, of Frierson, La.; three sisters, Leola Combs, M.
E. Gray of Shreveport, Maudessie Broussard of Baton Rouge, La.;
eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild step-grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were Arthur Lambert, Ricky Lambert, Ricky Salley,
Emery Pullen, Sammy Roe and Reggie Roe.