Obituaries:  Burdette Barnes Norwood, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       N-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 1, 1989
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Burdette Barnes Norwood

  Mr. Burdette Barnes Norwood, 79, died at DeSoto General Hospital
in Mansfield, on Feb. 18, 1989, at 1 p.m., after a brief illness.

  Mr. Norwood was a native of Lula Community, and a lifelong
resident of the Benson, La. area. He was a retired school bus
driver, a farmer, and a member of the Old Union Baptist Church,
Woodmen of the World, and was a Mason.

  Services were held at Old Union Baptist Church in Benson, on
Monday, Feb. 20, 1989, at 2 p.m., with Rev. Truitt Murphy
officiating. Burial was at the church cemetery, under the
direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Mansfield, La.

  Survivors include his wife, Isolene Brown Norwood of Benson;
three sons and daughters-in-law, Jerry and Maxine Norwood of Pine
Bluff, Ark., Richard and Jeanette Norwood of Mansfield, La.,
Ronald Glenn and Sally Norwood of Benson; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Nadine and Marshall Reed of Terrell, Tex., Dianne
and Del Worth of Mesquite, Tex.; one sister, Alabama Austin of
Mansfield; six grandchildren, John Ray Norwood, Michael Norwood,
Kim Norwood, Amanda Worth, Mark Worth, Pam Norwood Strickel and
husband Doug.

  Pallbearers were Donald Wayne Norwood, Harold Ford, J. C.
Bissell, Charles Ray Bissell, Glen Myers, B. E. Wilburn.