Obituaries:  Mrs. Edgar Irvin, Sabine Parish       I-615
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 28, 1968
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Edgar Irvin

  Mrs. Edgar Irvin, nee Ida Patterson, formerly of Zwolle, passed
away in Houston, March 14, after a lengthy illness. Funeral
services were conducted March 16, at 2 p.m., in Forest Park
Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. T. S. Newman officiated. Burial was
in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery.

  Mrs. Irvin was a teacher in Sabine Parish for several years,
before moving to Trinidad, and later to Beaumont, where she
taught in the Beaumont School System until the end of the 1967
school year. She went to Houston in September 1967, and taught in
the Montrose School until shortly after mid-term.

  While in Sabine, Mrs. Irvin was active in the First Baptist
Church of Zwolle, American Legion Auxiliary, Floyd Jordan Post
172, Eastern Star and Psi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.

  Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Fletcher Neblett Jr. of
Houston; one sister, Mrs. John Varnado of Many; one brother; and
several nieces and nephews.

  Pallbearers were Charles E. Pattison of Mansfield, Thomas P.
Fletcher of New Orleans, Dr. Roy Dugas of Houma, Larry Martin,
Dick Holland, and Noel Willis, Houston.

  Sabine people attending the funeral, other than immediate
family, were Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hayes, Mrs. Otis Gandy, and Mrs.
Clyde Patterson.