Obituaries:  William Jefferson Mahaffey, Sabine Parish       M-100
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 8, 1991
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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William Jefferson Mahaffey

  Funeral services for Mr. William Jefferson Mahaffey, 76, were
held Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m., in the Florien First Baptist
Church. Rev. Mack Brister officiated. Interment followed in the
Ebenezer Cemetery, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral
Home.

  Mr. Mahaffey passed away Friday, April 26, at the Beauregard
Memorial Hospital in DeRidder.

  He is survived by his wife, Celeste Leach Mahaffey of Florien;
two sons, Lonnie R. Mahaffey, and Robert S. Mahaffey, both of
Gulfport, Mississippi; five daughters, Ruth Nyberg, Evelyn
Prewitt, and Mary Ochiltree, all of DeRidder, Natalie Doyle of
Singer, and Alwin Craig of Zavala, Texas; two sisters, Estelle
Maines of Florien, and Delphine Mixon of Shreveport; one brother,
Claude D. Mahaffey of Bossier City; one grandchildren; and three
great grandchildren.

  Mr. Mahaffey was preceded in death by a son, Billy C. Mahaffey.

  Pallbearers were Maxwell Smith, Anthony Craig, Timothy Prewitt,
W. J. Mahaffey II, David Doyle, and Scott Prewitt, Honorary
pallbearers were Mike Sewell, Randy Doyle, Brian Chaconas, Roy
Bernard, Tony Prewitt, Wade Laroux, and Steven Mahaffey.