Obituaries:  Lessie C. Van Hooser, Sabine Parish       H-260
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 28, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Lessie C. Van Hooser

  Services for Mrs. Lessie Mae Van Hooser, 9?, of Arcadia, was
held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 27, at Conger's Funeral Home in
Arcadia. The Rev. George York officiated.

  She died at Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, Monday, April
25, 1983, after a short illness. Mrs. Van Hooser, a native of
Grant Parish, was married to Edd Van Hooser on April 12, 1911.
She was a longtime resident of Claiborne Parish, and a member of
Bethel Methodist Church in the Hurricane Community.

  She is survived by her husband, Edd Van Hooser; four daughters,
Clarice Bramlett of Arcadia, Avis Valentine of Dixie, La., Marie
McGhee of Maryville, Tenn., and Shirley McMillin of Carthage,
Miss.; two sons, Murry L. Van Hooser of Ruston, and Murriel Van
Hooser of Dallas, Texas; she is also survived by eighteen
grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; and six great-great
grandchildren. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Loy
Evans, and Mrs. Lucille Evans, both of Bossier City; and two
brothers, Eben Chandler of Athens, La., and Clarence Chandler of
Zwolle; a daughter, Gladys Abercrombie preceded her in death.

  Grandsons served as pallbearers. Interment followed in the
Hurricane Cemetery, under the direction of Conger's Funeral Home.