Obituaries:  Mrs. G. A. Pickett, Sabine Parish       P-230
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 13, 1962
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. G. A. Pickett

  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ella Pickett, widow of the late
G. A. Pickett, of 2935 Milton Street, Shreveport, were held at
2:30 p.m., Sunday, in the chapel of the Rose-Neath Funeral Home,
with the Rev. Stanley Jordan, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist
Church, officiating. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery. The
pallbearers were L. P. Embrey, John S. Pickett Jr., John R.
Pickett, C. H. Vandegaer, Dr. M. S. Embery, and W. M. Thomas.

  Mrs. Pickett, aged 90, died in the Willis-Knighton Hospital,
July 6, 1962, after a lengthy illness.

  She is survived by four sons, Judge John S. Pickett of Many, M.
M. Pickett of Many, G. D. Pickett of Bossier City, and F. W.
Pickett of Washington, D. C.; two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Carney of
Shreveport, and Mrs. Irene Alison of Corpus Christi, Texas; three
brothers, S. B. Sheppard of Ft. Worth, Texas, Robert O. Sheppard
of McLeon, Texas, and H. C. Sheppard of Atlanta, Texas; two
sisters, Mrs. Henry Ray of Bivins, Texas, and Mrs. Phillip Massey
of Marshall, Texas; 12 grandchildren; and 31 great grandchildren.