Obituaries:  Mr. Albert James (Jay) Leggett, Sabine Parish       L-230
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 12, 1998
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mr. Albert James (Jay) Leggett (Photo)

  Mr. Albert James (Jay) Leggett Jr., 63, of Converse, died
Saturday, Aug. 1, at 6:30 p.m. He died in the John L. McClellan
Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., after a brief illness.

  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 5, at
Warren Meadows Funeral Chapel, with interment following at Shiloh
Cemetery (in the Noble-Converse area). Military graveside
services were performed, with a 21 gun salute, and the playing of
Taps provided by the local chapter of the DAV. Elder Terry W.
Foster of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
officiated.

  Survivors include his widow, Linda Leggett of Ebarb; one son,
Alan J. Leggett of Mira Loma, Calif.; two daughters, Laura
Leggett of Zwolle, and Katrina Leggett Walker and husband Ernie
of Ebarb; five grandchildren, Ashley, and Jason Weeks, Amanda
Leggett of Zwolle, Jeffrey Leggett of Mira Loma, Calif., and
Sterling Brown of Ebarb; four brothers, Bill Leggett, Samuel and
Ramona Leggett, all of Converse, Jim and Frankie Leggett of
Brownwood, Texas, and Joe and Love Leggett of Mineral Wells,
Texas; two sisters, Letha and Clarence Bearden of Fisher, and
Betty and Tommy McComic of Many; two sisters-in-law, Helen
Leggett of Jena, and Jean Leggett of Livingston, Texas; three
brothers-in-law, Clifton Batson of Zwolle, O. V. Leggett of
Mineral Wells, Texas, and Gene Coffee of Converse; and many
nieces, nephews, and friends. Mr. Leggett was preceded in death
by his parents, Albert James Leggett Sr., and Vircy Webb Leggett;
and 13 brothers and sisters.