Obituaries:  Thelma Jackson Salter, Sabine Parish       S-436
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 3, 1940
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Thelma Jackson Salter

  3 May 1940 Funeral services for Mrs. Thelma Jackson Salter, 32, who
died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jackson Thursday,
April 24, were held at the First Baptist church at 2:30 Friday with
interment in Zion Hill cemetery, Negreet.  Rev. C. W. Williams, pastor
of First Baptist church, performed the last sad rites.

  Mrs. Salter was a graduate of Many high school and her classmates
were her pallbearers.  She has lived with her husband Ernest Salter
at their home in Opelousas until recently when she came her to visit
with her parents until she fully recovered from a illness which was
of several months duration.  Her death occurred suddenly.  Only her
parents were present.

  Her surviving relatives are her husband, Ernest Salter; her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jackson; on sister, Mrs. Morris DeVillier,
Opelousas; one brother Charlie Jackson, Barksdale Field; two small
nieces and one uncle, E. H. Bolton, Anacoco.

  The Dennis-Green funeral home had charge of arrangements.  The
following were the pallbearers:  Elden Dees, Glen Phares, LaVern
Dailey, George Pace, Charles Williams.

  The following are the relatives of her husband who attended the
funeral:  his parents and brothers and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Salter
of Negreet, Leon Salter and family of Coushatta, Elton Salter and
family of Pleasant Hill, Mrs. Ed Willard of Shreveport, Mrs. Robert
Wright and family of Many, Mrs. John LaCour of Beaumont, Texas, Miss
Exa Salter and Miss Georgia Salter of Beaumont, Texas, Kirt Salter
and wife of Ville Platte, Norman Salter of Opelousas, Miss Juanita
Salter of Shreveport, Miss Betty Lou Salter of Negreet; the following
uncles and aunts, Mrs. LeRoy Miller, Mrs. W. E. Bryan and Mrs. J. E.
Leach of Natchitoches, R. S. Miller and Clifford Miller of Alexandria,
Mrs. R. B. Miller of Florien, Ms. Exa Simmons of Elizabeth.

  Friends from Eunice attending were:  Mrs. H. D. DeMoss, Mrs. W. L.
Cooper, Mrs. Troy Valentine and Walter Aymond.