Obituaries:  Mrs. Opal Holden Sweet, Sabine Parish       S-300
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 25, 1989
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Opal Holden Sweet

  Funeral services for Mrs. Opal Holden Sweet of Many, were
conducted on Thursday, January 19, at 2 p.m., at New Jerusalem
Baptist Church. The Rev. Clarence Berry, pastor of Antioch
Baptist Church near Negreet officiated.

  Mrs. Sweet, a Wal-Mart employee, died Saturday, January 14,
1989, at Highland Hospital in Shreveport, following a lengthy
illness. She was 37.

  Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Sweet; three daughters,
Tracy, Felicia, and LaShan; her mother, Gladys Holden; her
father, Jessie Holden; a brother, Jessie Holden, Jr.; two
sisters, Lottie Maxie, and Shirley Holden; four aunts; three
uncles; and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.

  Jenkins Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Burial
was in the New Jerusalem Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Heupy P. Scott, John Holland, Louis Ray
Hollins, Donald Sweet, Charles Brumfield, and Robert A. Sweet.
Honorary pallbearers were deacons of Antioch Baptist Church,
where Mrs. Sweet was a member.