Obituaries:  Mrs. Clara Bell Nance Lord, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       L-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 26, 1991
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Clara Bell Nance Lord

  Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Bell Nance Lord, 95, were held
Friday, June 21, at 10 a.m., in Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel in
Mansfield, La. Interment followed in Grove Hill Cemetery, under
the direction of Rose-Neath's Mansfield Chapel.

  Mrs. Clara Nance Lord died Wednesday, June 12, in DeSoto General
Hospital in Mansfield, La. She was born in Oxford, La., in DeSoto
Parish, on April 21, 1896. She was a member of the Wallace
Baptist Church in Wallace, La. She was instrumental in the
beginning, and the building of Clara Springs Baptist Encampment
in Wallace, La. She was past president of the DeSoto Association
of the WMU in DeSoto Parish. She worked many years, with girls
and boys in the Girls Auxiliary, and the Royal Ambassadors, and
loved children and working with children.

  Mrs. Clara Nance Lord was preceded in death by her husband Jeb
Stuart Lord. She is survived by three sons, W. G. Lord and his
wife Sybil of Wallace, La., Fred A. Lord Sr. and wife Irma of
Shreveport, La., and Jeb S. Lord Jr. and wife Betty of West
Monroe, La.; four daughters, Mrs. Eloise Haire and husband Truman
of Wallace, La., Mrs. Aileen Martin of Pleasant Hill, La., Mrs.
Geraldine Stoner of Pelican, La., and Mrs. Clara T. McDearment
and husband Frank of Pleasant Hill, La.; one brother, Mr. John
Nance and wife Mae of Holdenville, Oklahoma; 24 grandchildren;
and 83 great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were grandsons as follows: Jeb S. Lord III, Clayton
M. Lord, Don A. Davis, Byron Lord, Jody Davis, Fred A. Lord Jr.,
and Bill Lord.