Obituaries:  Bessie Mae Powell, Sabine Parish       P-400
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 14, 1982
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Bessie Mae Powell

  Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Mae Skinner Powell, born June
20, 1908, were held Friday, Oct. 8, at 4 p.m., at Warren Meadows
Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was at Florien Cemetery. Brother Mack
Brister officiated at the services. Funeral services were under
the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Serving as pallbearers were Wilmer Powell, Bubba Stephens, Joe
Don Powell, Dale Skinner, Jack Goss, and Chelsea Bronson.

  Mrs. Powell died Thursday, Oct. 7, at Fraser Hospital North,
after a long illness. She was 74. Mrs. Bessie Mae Powell had
lived in Florien for 40 years. For the past three years, she was
a resident of Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Many. Mrs. Powell
was a native of Belmont.

  She was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Florien.
She was also a substitute school teacher, and an Avon
representative for many years.

  Preceded in death by her husband, Walter Powell, and one son,
Walter Hubert Powell, Mrs. Powell is survived by two sons,
Charlie H. Powell of Houston, Tex., Ted Powell, a U. S. Army
S/Sgt., stationed in Calif.; one daughter-in-law, Mary Jane
Powell of Houston, Tex.; four sisters, Lela Wright, Belmont,
Corrie Phillips, Lake Charles, Dell Brooks, Marval, Tex., Nell
Theriot, Lake Charles; one brother, Albert Skinner, Magnolia,
Ark.; six grandchildren, Mickey, Jimmy, and Gary Powell, all of
San Antonio, Tex., Gay Powell, Natchitoches, Christina Powell,
Houston, Tex., Ina Frances Moore, Katy, Tex.; a special niece,
Mrs. Mavis Stephens, Belmont; many nieces and nephews; and a host
of friends.