Obituaries:  Eloise Martin Magness, Sabine Parish       M-252
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 8, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Eloise Martin Magness

  Services for Mrs. Eloise Martin Magness, 78, of Converse, were
held at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 5, at the Midway Baptist Church in
Converse, with the Rev. William Campbell officiating. Burial was
held at Sardis Cemetery, under the direction of Rose-Neath
Mansfield Chapel. The family received friends at the funeral home
after 4 p.m., on Saturday.

  Mrs. Magness died Thursday, July 2, at the HCA Highland Hospital
in Shreveport. She was born in Columbia, La., and was a former
resident of Orange, Texas. She had resided in Converse since
1980. She graduated from the Southern Baptist School of Nursing
in New Orleans in 1936, and served in the US Army Corps of Nurses
during World War II. She was a member of Midway Baptist Church.

  She is survived by her husband, Willie C. Magness of Converse;
one son, John Clifton Magness of Friendswood, Texas; one niece,
Mrs. Georgia Shelby of Alvarado, Texas.

  Pallbearers were John Tatum, Charles Shelby, William Magness,
John Adamo, Paul Adamo, and Steve Snow.