Obituaries:  Mary Atla Gentry, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       G-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 6, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net

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Mary Atla Gentry

  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Alta Gentry, were held Saturday,
Feb. 1, at 3 p.m., at Jennings Chapel Congregational Methodist
Church near Marthaville. Mrs. Gentry, 79, died Thursday, Jan. 30,
at Schumpert Medical Center in Shreveport, following a long
illness.

  The Rev. I. D. Noble, assisted by the Rev. Ed Fenton,
officiated. Burial was in Bethany Cemetery, under the direction
of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home of Natchitoches.

  Mrs. Gentry, a native of Cloutierville, was preceded in death by
her husband, Edward E. Gentry, Sr.

  Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. C. F. Shirley of
Winnsboro, La., Mrs. Lucy Gentry Jennings, and Mrs. Evelyn
Sutton, both of Shreveport; two sons, Edward E. Gentry, Jr. of
Bossier City, and Robert Gentry of Many, La.; one sister, Mrs.
Florentine Smith of Cloutierville; nine grandchildren; and six
great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were James Shirley, David Shirley, Richard Jennings,
Gilbert McMillan, Roger Smith, and Hoyt Birdwell.

  Honorary pallbearers were her grandsons, Jason McMillan, Billy
Sutton, Terry Shirley, Landon Shirley, and Mark DeMane.