Obituaries:  Billy Ray Lopez, Sabine Parish       L-120
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 22, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Billy Ray Lopez

  Funeral services for Billy Ray "Poncho" Lopez, 47, of Brookland,
Texas, were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, December 17, at the J. O.
Stringer and Griffin Funeral Home Chapel in Jasper, with burial
in Brookland Cemetery.

  He died Wednesday from injuries received in an auto accident
near Call, Texas. A native of Zwolle, La., he lived in Brookland
most of his life, and was a journeyman fireman with local Union
No. 390 in Port Arthur.

  Survivors include his mother, Lucy Lopez of Zwolle; wife,
Jeanetta Lopez of Brookland; six sons, Tony Lopez of Groves,
Darrell Lopez, Billy C. Lopez, Paul Lopez, and Jerry Chambers,
all of Brookland, and Terry Lopez of North Carolina; five
brothers, M. A. Lopez of Conroe, Texas, R. V. Lopez of New Caney,
and Donny Lopez, Doyle Lopez, Kenneth Lopez, all of Zwolle. A
sister, Sue Drake of Garland; and two grandchildren.