Obituaries:  Alonzo Benjamin Lewis, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       L-200
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 2, 1978
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Alonzo Benjamin Lewis

  Services for Alonzo Benjamin Lewis, 59, of Many, were held
Thursday at 1 p.m., in Shreveport, at Rose-Neath Funeral Home's
Southside Chapel. The Rev. George Cunningham, pastor of the
Bethel Methodist Church in Logansport, officiated. Burial was in
Bethel Cemetery in Logansport.

  Mr. Lewis died at 3:23 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the Veteran's
Administration Hospital.

  A native of Newton Co., Texas, he had lived in Many for two
years. He was a former resident of Morgan City.

  A truck line operator, he was a member of the First Baptist
Church in Morgan City, and the American Legion. He was a Navy
veteran of World War II

  Survivors include wife, Mrs. Blanche Lewis of Many, stepson,
Charles Malone of Woodville, Texas, daughters, Mrs. Alice Say
Moncrief of Morgan City, Mrs. Bennie Lewis of Longstreet, and
Mrs. Sue Boley, and Mrs. June Register, both of Logansport;
father, Lee Lewis of Woodville, Texas; sisters, Mrs. Lela West of
Woodville, Texas, Mrs. Ada Stephens of Jasper, Texas, Mrs. Edna
See of Spurger, Texas, Mrs. Elnora Marshall of Chester, Texas,
and Mrs. Pearl Sanders, and Mrs. Myrtle Dickey, both of
Woodville, Texas; brothers, Velton Lewis of Woodville, Texas, and
Reginald Lewis of Jasper, Texas; and 14 grandchildren.