Obituaries:  Mrs. Bertie Marie Leach, Sabine Parish       L-200
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 22, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Bertie Marie Leach

  Services for Mrs. Bertie Marie Leach, 81, of Shreveport, were
held at 1 p.m., Monday, May 19, in Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel.
Dr. George R. Smith III, pastor of Sunset Acres Baptist Church,
officiated. The Rev. Gary Melanson, minister of music of Sunset
Acres Baptist Church, assisted. Burial was in Centuries Memorial
Park.

  Mrs. Leach, a native of Negreet, La., died Saturday, May 17,
1986, in Highland Hospital, following a lengthy illness. She had
been a resident of Shreveport since the early 1940's. She was a
homemaker, and a member of Sunset Acres Baptist Church.

  She was survived by her husband, W. F. Leach of Shreveport; two
daughters and sons-in-law, Margie L. and Jimmy Smith of Bridge
City, Texas, and Billie L. and Robert Gorham of Jacksonville,
Texas; two sisters, Zelma Anthony and Bertha Salter, both of
Many, La.; one brother, Howard Blackwell of Florien, La.; four
grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren; and numerous nieces
and nephews.