Obituaries:  Cora Williams Polke, Sabine, Vernon Parish       P-420
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 3, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Cora Williams Polke

  Services for Cora Williams Polke, 85, were held at 2 p.m.,
Wednesday, Dec. 26, in Starr Funeral Home Chapel in Hemphill,
Tex., with the Rev. Clarence Howell, and the Rev. Billy Walker
officiating. Burial with Eastern Star rites, were held in
Hemphill Cemetery.

  Mrs. Polke died Monday, Dec. 24, in Schumpert Medical Center in
Shreveport, after a lengthy illness.

  A native of Hornbeck, she has lived in Hemphill since 1919. She
was a member of First Baptist Church of Hemphill, and Order of
the Eastern Star.

  Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Earline Polke Brown of
Shreveport; three sisters, Pearlee Anthony of Houston, Tx., Mary
Speights of Many, and Alice Jones of Beaumont, Tx.; two brothers,
Curtis Williams, and J. W. Williams, both of Many, and one
grandson.

  The family requests any memorial be made to the American Heart
Association, or a charity of the donor's choice.