Obituaries:  Augie Bridges Gaddis, Sabine Parish       G-320
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 16, 1982
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Augie Bridges Gaddis

  Services for Mrs. Augie Bridges Gaddis, 85, were held at 2 p.m.,
Sunday, December 12, at Drewett Memorial Chapel in Mansfield. Dr.
William T. Crosby, assisted by Rev. Adrian Pater, officiated.
Burial was at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

  Mrs. Augie Bridges Gaddis was born May 4, 1897, at Pleasant
Hill. She died December 10, 1982, after an extended illness in
Guest House Nursing Home of Shreveport. She was the daughter of
John M. and Velda Jacob Bridges of Pleasant Hill, the widow of
Herman C. Gaddis, who died in World War I, and the mother of
Herman C. Gaddis, Jr., who died in World War II. She was a member
of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, and was a retired
Louisiana public school teacher.

  She is survived by four brothers, John Bridges of Mansfield, R.
L. Bridges of Biloxi, Miss., Lemuel L. Bridges of Pleasant Hill,
Orel Bridges of Lafayette; three sisters, Mrs. Vernie Martin of
Bastrop, Mrs. C. R. Anderson, and Mrs. Joseph W. Spahrer of Baton
Rouge.

  The family requests that any memorials be made to the First
Baptist Church of Mansfield, or the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
in Pleasant Hill.