Obituaries:  Mrs. Bessie Boyd Ford Lowderback, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       L-361
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 17, 1988
Submitted by: Ruth Estess
              r.estess@worldnet.att.net


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The Sabine Index

  Mrs. Bessie Boyd Ford Lowderback - March 17, 1988

  Mrs. Bessie Lowderback of Shreveport passed from this life
Thursday, March 10, 1988. She was born January 3, 1917, in
Convers.

  She graduated from Converse High School and married Ralph Cecil
Ford. The Fords and their four children worked their own dairy
farm in Converse until Mr. Ford's death in 1954. Mrs. Ford then
moved her family to Shreveport, where she married Elgie Q.
Lowderback in 1970. Mr. Lowderback died in 1983.

  Survivors include her mother, Minnie Boyd of Converse; three
daughters and a son, Evelyn Ford Smith of DeQuincy, Charlsie Ford
DePingre and Cecile Ford King, both of Shreveport, and Charles
Ford of Converse; grandchildren, Ralph Smith and Rhonda Ebersole
of Sulphur, Amanda Seal, Kelly Wise, Amy DePingre, Paul DePingre,
Kandy King, David DePingre and Brandon King; great grandchildren,
Brittainy Wise, Jacob Smith and Chaz Wise.

  Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at
Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Dr. Shelton Survivors include her
mother, Minnie Boyd of Converse; three daughters and a son,
Evelyn Ford Smith of DeQuincy, Charlsie Ford DePingre and Cecile
Ford King, both of Shreveport, and Charles Ford of Converse;
grandchildren, Ralph Smith and Rhonda Ebersole of Sulphur, Amanda
Seal, Kelly Wise, Amy DePingre, Paul DePingre, Kandy King, David
DePingre and Brandon King; great grandchildren, Brittainy Wise,
Jacob Smith and Chaz Wise.

  Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at
Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Dr. Shelton Young, pastor of Faith
Tabernacle, officiated. Interment was at Highland Cemetery in
Mansfield with 4 p.m. graveside service.

  Pallbearers were her grandsons. Honorary pallbearers were Donald
R. Miller, Dr. Thomas E. Kinstrey and Dr. Ike Muslow, and Percy
McCraney.