Obituaries:  Cora Russell Sanders, Sabine Parish       S-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 19, 1988
Submitted by: Ruth Estess
              restess42@cs.com




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The Sabine Index

  Cora Russell Sanders - May 19, 1988

  Mrs. Cora Russell Sanders, 98, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, died
Thursday, May 12, at Pine Bluff Nursing Home.

  Born August 12, 1889, near Bernice, La., she was the daughter of
the late James Manuel and Rebecca Elizabeth Russell. She was the
widow of Marshall H. Sanders.

  Mrs. Sanders was reared and educated in Noble, La. She married
Mr. Sanders, a widower with two children in 1909. They lived in
Noble several years before moving to Oak Grove, near Converse,
La. where they lived until 1924 when they moved to Pine Bluff,
Arkansas. She united with the Immanuel Baptist Chruch, remaining
a member there until her death.

  Survivors include sons, Emmett and Dudley Sanders both of Hot
Springs; Paul Sanders of Natchitoches, and step-son Taribble
Sanders of Shreveport, daughters, Opal Ferguson, Ethelene
Matluck, both of Pine Bluff, Ava Thompson of Houston, Texas,
Jewell Hutt of Chattanooga, Tenn. and step daughter Neda Bailey
of Shreveport, 19 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, two step
grandchildren and several step great grandchildren.

  Funeral services were held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 14, at
Ralph Robinson and Son Mortuary with Dr. David Moore officiating.
Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery in Pine Bluff.

  Pallbearers were grandsons. Both the Sanders and Russell
families have many friends in Sabine Parish.