Obituaries:  Edward E. Gentry, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       G-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 10, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net

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Edward E. Gentry

  Services for Edward Earl Gentry, 79, of Marthaville, were held
at 3 p.m., Friday, Feb. 4, at Jennings Chapel Congregational
Methodist Church near Marthaville. The Rev. I. D. Noble, pastor
of Spears Chapel at Burkeville, Tex., and the Rev. Don Slater,
pastor of Jennings Chapel, officiated. Burial was in the Bethany
Cemetery, under the direction of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home
of Natchitoches.

  He died Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 10 p.m., at Pleasant Hill General
Hospital, after a lengthy illness.

  Mr. Gentry was born in Baxter, Tenn., Jan. 30, 1904. As a young
man, he worked as a hardwood lumber inspector at sawmills
throughout the south. During World War II, he worked in the ship
building industry at Beaumont, Tex.

  He is survived by his wife, Mary Atla Gentry of Marthaville; two
sons, Edward E. Gentry, Jr. of Bossier City, and Robert Gentry of
Many; three daughters, Mrs. Clifford Shirley of Winnsboro, and
Mrs. Lucy Jennings, and Mrs. Evelyn Sutton of Shreveport; one
brother, John B. Gentry, Jr. of Marthaville; one sister, Lucille
Wylie of Kilbourne; nine grandchildren; and four great
grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were David Shirley, James Shirley, Terry Shirley,
Richard Jennings, Keith Gentry, and Gilbert McMillin.