Obituaries:  Maudie V. Tatum, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       T-350
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 17, 1974
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Maudie V. Tatum

  Maudie Virginia Tatum, 57, long a major figure in Mansfield's
public schools, died at 8 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 13, in Schumpert
Hospital, after a brief illness.

  A native of Converse, she had resided in Mansfield most of her
life.

  Miss Tatum earned the bachelor of arts and master of arts
degrees with honors, from Baylor University, and taught for years
in Mansfield public schools, later teaching kindergarten in
Mansfield's First Baptist Church school.

  She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an organization of
retired public schools teachers.

  Funeral services were held at 4 p.m., at the Marshall Street
Chapel of the Rose-Neath Funeral Home on Monday, Jan. 14. Dr.
George Ritchey of the First Baptist Church in Mansfield, and the
Rev. Truman Kerr of Broadmoor Baptist Church officiated. Burial
was in the Forest Park Cemetery.

  Survivors include two brothers, Dr. Scott Tatum, pastor of
Broadmoor Baptist Church, and James D. Tatum, both of Shreveport;
three sisters, Mrs. Sibyl Edwards of Converse, and Mrs. Marie
Cunningham, and Mrs. Inez Webb, both of Dallas, Texas.

  Pallbearers were C. E. Hewitt, Cecil A. Flanders, Malon
McCammon, J. W. Bennett, F. E. Bufkin, Hines E. Rogers Jr., Henry
Hollowell, and Artel Howard.