Obituaries:  Joe Shoemaker, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       S-526
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 2, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Joe Shoemaker

  Services for Joe Shoemaker were held at 2 p.m., in Hickory Grove
Congregational Methodist Church, with the Rev., Owen Laftona and
sister Peggy Maricelli officiating. Burial was held in Lamberton
Cemetery, at Shamrock, under the direction of Rockett-Nettles,
Coushatta.

  Shoemaker, 88, of Robeline, died at 7:35 p.m., Monday, in
Natchitoches Long Leum Care Unit.

  He was a retired sharecropper and farmer. He was a deacon, and a
member of Union Grove Congregational Methodist Church.

  Survivors include three daughters, Geraldine Shoemaker, Mary
Dockens, and Rosie Rawls, all of Robeline; two sons, Ottis
Shoemaker of Robeline, and George Shoemaker of Marthaville; two
brothers, J. C. Shoemaker, both of Coushatta; his stepmother,
Winnie Brimer of Natchitoches; three half sisters, Loretta Beal
of Natchitoches, Esther Campbell of Belmont, and Ellen Lewis of
Lafayette; one half brother, Hoyt Shoemaker of Hobbs; twenty six
grandchildren; forty five great grandchildren; and seven
great-great grandchildren.