Obituaries:  William Mercer, Sabine Parish       M-626
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 25, 1975
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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William Mercer

  William Fred Mercer, 78, died Friday, Sept. 19, at a local
nursing home.

  Services were at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, at Southern Funeral Home
Chapel in Winnfield. The Revs. Calvin Phelps, and Charles Haley
officiated. Burial was in Big Creek Cemetery, Dry Prong.

  Surviving are three sons, the Rev. Earl D. Mercer, Monroe,
formerly of Zwolle, W. Elmo Mercer, Nashville, Tenn., and James
Ronald Mercer, Crossett, Ark.; one daughter, Mrs. Dan Rankin
Byers, Tex.; three brothers, the Rev. Moses E. Mercer,
Shreveport, Harry Mercer, and Jesse Mercer, both of Pollack;
three sisters, Mrs. Elmer Bruce, Bentley, Mrs. Virgil Waters,
Pollack, and Mrs. Eugene Smith, Bossier City; and ten
grandchildren.

  The family suggested that memorials to the New Cottage Building
Fund of the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home, Monroe, be
contributed in lieu of flowers.