Obituary: Nov. 1944, Sabine Parish, LA  
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The following obituries or deaths are listed below:

Dena Laura Russell
Annie Clare Vandeagaer
Sunday Franklin Moss
Mattie Thomas

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Obituaries:  Mrs. Dena Laura Russell, Sabine Parish       R-240
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 3, 1944
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net



The Sabine Index - Mrs. Dena Laura Russell

  3 Nov 1944 - Last rites for Mrs. Dena Laura Russell, age 57
years were held from the Baptist church at Fisher three o'clock
Sunday, Rev. Green officiating, Massingill funeral home in
charge.

  Pallbearers were: Mr. Winn, Claude McComic, Mr. McCants, Nelson
Owens, Mr. Chambers, R. S. Salter, Mr. McAllen, Mr. Brown.

  Surviving are: husband, W. O. Russell, Fisher; three
sons, Ralph of Fisher, Neil of U. S. Army, Harry of Port Arthur,
Texas; one daughter, Mildred of Velasco, Texas; eight
grandchildren.

  The Russells moved to Fisher from Bismark, Ma., in
1921.

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Obituaries:  Miss Annie Clare Vandegaer, Sabine Parish       V-532
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 3, 1944
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net
 

The Sabine Index - Miss Annie Clare Vandegaer

  3 Nov 1944 - Funeral rites for Miss Annie Clare Vandegaer
were held 10:30 Tuesday from St. John's Catholic church.
Monsignor N. F. Vandegaer of Monroe was the celebrant of the
requiem high mass. Father John C. Vandegaer of Lake Providence
gave the sermon. Father J. A. Benoit officiated in the funeral
rites. Interment was in the Catholic cemetery, Massingill funeral
home in charge.

  Pallbearers were: O. E. William, J. J. Blake, W. R. Robinson,
C. J. Hubley, Wm. H. Ponder and J. M. Belisle.

  Surviving are two sisters, Miss Eula Vandegaer and
Mrs. Mary Vandegaer Scott, both of Houston, Texas.

  Miss Vandegaer passed away at Houston, Texas Sunday
after a long illness. She was the youngest daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vandegaer and an niece of W. H. Vandegaer of
Many.

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Obituaries:  Sunday Franklin Moss, Sabine Parish       M-200
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 10, 1944
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




The Sabine Index - Sunday Franklin Moss

  10 Nov 1944 - Funeral services for Sunday Franklin Moss, 51,
who died in a Shreveport sanitarium on the morning of Oct. 31,
were held at Noble Baptist church 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 with
the Rev. Joe Flanagan, pastor, Zwolle Baptist church,
officiating. Burial was in Noble cemetery. He was a member of
Zwolle camp W.O.W.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Laura E. Moss of Zwolle; two
sons, James of the U. S. army, Camp Gruber, Okla., and Luther
Franklin, Cedar Grove,; one daughter, Mrs. H. A. Strickland of
Zwolle; two granddaughters, Barbara Arlene and Ellen Charlene
Moss, Cedar Grove; one sister, Mrs. W. D. Dowden, Cypress; his
step-mother, Mrs. Nancy Moss, Provencal; nine half-sisters, Mrs.
T. A. Leach, Mrs. B. Y. Dowden, Mrs. Sidney Faust, Mrs. Ed
Knippers, Mrs. S. E. Dowden, Mrs. Edmon Martin, Mrs. R. H.
Dowden, Mrs. A. R. Stewart and Mrs. Johnny Carney; one
half-brother, J. T. Moss.

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Obituaries:  Mrs. Mattie Thomas, Sabine Parish       T-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 24, 1944
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




The Sabine Index - Mrs. Mattie Thomas

  24 Nov 1944 - Last rites for Mrs. Mattie Thomas, age 96
years, were held 3 p.m. last Monday from the Baptist church at
Pleasant Hill. Rev. Jeff Holliday and Rev. W. J. Ross officiated.
Massingill funeral home of Many directed. Pallbearers were:
Thomas hardy, Roy Bridges, A. J. Barron, Mr. Graves, Mr. Ross and
Mr. Adams.

  Surviving are: tow nieces, Mrs. daisy Allen, Tyler, Texas,
Mrs. Florence M. Allmeter, Texarkana, Texas; adopted daughters,
Mrs. Mattie Adams of Pleasant Hill, Mrs. Elizabeth Bertrand of
Mamou; granddaughter, Miss Hazel Adams, Pleasant Hill, and
grandson, Jewel Adams, Beaumont, Texas.

  Mrs. Thomas had passed her 96th year and had spent most
of her life at or near Pleasant Hill. For a few years she lived
at Ida.

  On her last birthday, President Roosevelt sent her a check
for $5.0

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