Obituaries: Mrs. Evie Winn Smith, Sabine Parish S-530 Source: Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 5, 1989 Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck carlrad@earthlink.net ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Mrs. Evie Winn Smith Services for Mrs. Evie Winn Smith, 92, of Shreveport, were held at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 4, at Rose-Neath's Marshall Street Chapel. The Rev. Michael Lewis, pastor of Northwoods Baptist Church, where Mrs. Smith was a member, officiated. Burial was at Forest Park Cemetery. Mrs. Smith, a native of Sabine Parish, La., died Saturday, April 1, 1989, in Shreveport, following an extended illness. She was a housewife, a former resident of Natchitoches Parish, and had been a Shreveport resident since 1962. She was preceded in death by her husband, H. A. Smith; one son, R. A. Smith; and one step daughter, Doris Gibson. She is survived by one son, Ray Smith of Bossier City; one daughter, Johnnye Durr of Shreveport; six grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; a host of friends and neighbors, who knew her as "Granny Smith". Pallbearers were Lawrence Durr, Tim Durr, Dennis Dowden, Gordon P. Gibson Jr., Gordon P. Gibson III, Chester C. Davis. The family suggest memorials may be made to the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home, Monroe, La.