Obituaries:  Mavis Willov Leach, Sabine, Vernon Parish       L-200
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 9, 1999
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 


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Mavis Willov Leach

  Mavis Willov Leach, 77, of San Angelo, Texas and formerly of Lake
Charles died at 5:45 a.m. Friday, June 4, 1999 in a San Angelo, Texas
Medical Center.

  Miss Leach was born September 11, 1921 in Hornbeck to Arie Jett
Leach and Eli Hoyt Leach. Most of her younger years were spent in
Hornbeck, Plainview and Florien. She loved children and in return
they loved her, which kept her busy babysitting for the neighborhood.

  The Leach family moved from Hornbeck to Lake Charles in July of
1950. Willov became a member of Boulevard Baptist Church and was a
member there for 48 years.

  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, June 7, in the Johnson
Funeral Home Chapel with interment following at Highland Memory
Gardens Cemetery. The Rev. Hoy N. Leach officiated.

  Survivors include one brother and sister-in-law, Byron M. and
Katherine Morgan Leach of Marietta, Ga.; three sisters, Kathleen
Leach Dowden and brother-in-law, J. T. Dowden of Leesville, Carolyn
Leach Wills of San Angelo, Texas and Naomi Leach Wenzel of Hamilton,
Texas; seven nephews; and one niece.

  Johnson Funeral Home Lake Charles, La.