Obituaries:  Lillie River, Sabine Parish       R-160
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 24, 1983
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Lillie River

  Services for Mrs. Lillie Rivers, 71, of 2829 Jackson St. in
Shreveport, will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 24, at the
Wellman Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. J. M. Cason, pastor of Glad
Tidings Assembly of God Church, will officiate, assisted by the
Rev. Leonard Lindsay, associate pastor of the church. Burial was
at Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport.

  Mrs. Rivers, born in Zwolle, and a resident of Shreveport for 32
years, died Sunday, March 20, 1983, at LSU Medical Center, after
a brief illness. She was a housewife, and a member of the Glad
Tidings Assembly of God Church.

  She is survived by five sons, Joseph Leone, Gene Leone, Wilfred
Leone, and Curley Rivers of Shreveport, and Jess Leone of
Florida; two daughters, Gertrude Mullins of Utica, N. Y., and
Ruby Ebarb of Rosevine, Texas; 26 grandchildren; 21 great
grandchildren; one brother, Alex Pipps of Zwolle.

  Pallbearers will be Lester Meyers, W. H. Schoefer, L. C.
Ferguson, Aubrey Cason, Pete Bennett, and H. D. Roberts.