Obituaries:  Emma Byrd Oxley, Sabine Parish       O-240
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 25, 1993
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Emma Byrd Oxley (Photo)

  Services for Mrs. Emma Byrd Oxley, 95, were held at 2 p.m.,
Monday, August 23, 1993, at Warren Meadows Funeral Home Chapel in
Many.

  She was born to Lafayette Washington and Martha Ann Hardin Byrd
on March 6, 1989. She entered into rest on Friday, August 20,
1993, at Huckaby Hospital in Coushatta. She was a native of
Sabine Parish, and resided in Shreveport for over 50 years. She
was formerly a member of Southside Baptist Church in Shreveport,
and was very active in Sunday school, nursery, daycare, and many
other church functions. She retired from Morrison's Cafeteria,
and also the YMCA Cafeteria. She was currently a member of
Southside Baptist Church in Mansfield.

  Burial services will be officiated by Brother Kenneth Leach of
Beulah Baptist Church of Many. Burial will be at Mt. Carmel
Cemetery in Mt. Carmel.

  Mrs. Oxley was preceded in death by two brothers and six
sisters; one son, Edward Oxley Jr.; one daughter, Emma Marie
Oxley Wren; and son-in-law, Jack Wren; one grandson, Edwin James
Oxley; two great grandsons, Shawn Oxley, and Lawrence DeWayne
Moore.

  She is survived by two sons, Raymond H. Oxley and wife Stephanie
of Letha, Idaho, and Truman L. Oxley and wife Bet of Many; one
daughter, Jennie Oxley Feazel; and special son-in-law, H. W.
Feazel of Coushatta; there were five generations of family. There
are seventeen grandchildren; thirty five great grandchildren; and
five great-great grandchildren; two sisters, Eula Mae Alford, and
Pearl Patrick, both of Many; and numerous nieces and nephews.

  The nephews will serve as the pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers
will be Bobby Chance, Gerald Patrick, and her doctor, Dr. Wayne
Coleman.