Obituaries:  Mamie Powell, Sabine Parish       P-400
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 26, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mamie Powell

  Services for Mrs. Mamie Powell, 99, of Bossier City, were held
at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 20, at the McGuire Funeral Home Chapel
in Vivian, La. The Rev. Gentry, chaplain of Pilgrim Manor Nursing
Home officiated. Burial was at Vivian Cemetery.

  Mrs. Powell, a resident of Bossier City for the past ten years,
died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1987, at P & S Hospital in Shreveport,
after a lengthy illness. She was born in Vivian, La., October 9,
1888, and was a resident most of her life. She was a chief
telephone operator, and a founding member of the United Methodist
Church in Vivian.

  She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Powell; a son,
George Powell; and a daughter, Mina Powell Mitchell.

  She is survived by one sister, Lessie Lester of Many, La.; six
grandchildren, James Earl Powell, Vera Denny, Danny Ray Powell of
Kansas, Mary Neal Carter of Grapevine, Texas, Betty Swicegood of
Arizona, and Mary Lou King of Bossier City, La.; and a large
number of great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were Charles White, Dick McMillan, Nathan McDow, Roy
Jones, Curley Harrington, David King, Charles King, George
Lester, Sam Lester, and Floyd Mitchell.