Obituaries:  Mrs. Melvin Rhodes, Sabine Parish       R-320
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 19, 1974
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Melvin Rhodes

  Funeral seervices were held at 11:30 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 15, in
the Osborn funeral Home Chapel, for Mrs. Melvin C. Rhodes, 70, of
Shreveport, who died at 6:45 a.m., Friday, in Schumpert Medical
Center, after a short illness.

  The Rev. David Jenkins, pastor of Queensborough Baptist Church
officiated. Burial was in Fort Jesup Cemetery in Many.

  Mrs. Rhodes was a native of Robeline, and a resident of
Shreveport for 58 years. She was a member of Queensborough
Baptist Church, and a retired nurse.

  Survivors include her husband, three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Salter
of Van, Tex., and Mrs. Eunice Mims, and Mrs. Blanche Goodman,
both of Many, and two brothers, John Varnado, and M. D. Varnado,
both of Many.

  Pallbearers were Ray Salter, Alan Turner Jr., Franky Jones,
Ollie Anderson, Dean W. Lewis, and Wilton Anthony.