Obituaries:  Mrs. Lenora McDonald Neel, Sabine Parish       N-400
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 19, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Lenora McDonald Neel

  Services for Mrs. Lenora McDonald Neel, 92, of Ruston, La., were
held at 10 a.m., Monday, March 9, at Kilpatricks Chapel in
Ruston. The Rev. William L. Worrell officiated. Burial was at
Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, at 2 p.m., Monday, March 9,
under the direction of Kilpatricks Funeral Home of Ruston.

  Mrs. Neel was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church, Oak Grove.

  Mrs. Neel died March 7, 1987, at Lincoln General Hospital in
Ruston, after a brief illness.

  Mrs. Neel was born in Harrisville, Mississippi, and was one of
12 children born to James Alexander McDonald and Alice Barlow. In
1912, the family moved to Sabine Parish, where she resided until
1972, when she moved to Ruston. Mrs. Neel was preceded in death
by her husband, Oliver Fulton Neel. She is survived by her
daughter, Dr. Reba K. Neel of Ruston; and one sister, Mrs. Allie
Murtis Gibson of Odessa, Tex., and a host of nieces and nephews.

  Pallbearers were her nephews, Homer McDonald, Cecil "Bud" Kelly,
James Bonds, and Marion Leshe.

  Honorary pallbearers were Quentin Spillyards, E. W. Jones, O. F.
Brown, Charlie Ott, Grover Copeland, Ray Patrick, and Dewey
Sherwood of Oak Grove Community, Converse.

  Memorials may be made to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in
Ruston, the Arthritis Foundation, or the donors' choice.