Obituaries:  Mrs. Willa Newman Thompson, Sabine, Vernon Parish       T-512
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 12, 1994
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Willa Newman Thompson

  Funeral services for Mrs. Willa Mae Newman Thompson of Baton
Rouge, will be held on Friday, Jan. 7, at 11 a.m., at St. John
the Baptist Catholic Church of Many. Burial will be held on
Friday, Jan. 7, at 11 a.m., at St. John the Baptist Catholic
Church of Many. Burial will follow in the church cemetery, under
the direction of the Warren Meadows Funeral Home of Many.

  Pallbearers will be Joey Basco Jr., Ben Barnhill Jr., Brent
McMillian, Jim Quayhagen, Marvin Adams, and Todd Lientzen.

  Mrs. Thompson died on Wednesday, Jan. 5, at Schumpert Medical
Center in Shreveport, following a lengthy illness. She was 76.

  She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Eula Basco of Many; one
niece; and husband, Stephanie and Benny Barnhill of Many; three
nephews and wives, John Russell and Bernice Basco of Harvey,
Darien and Margaret Basco of Many, and Tom and Patsy Basco of
Belle Chasse; a host of great nieces and nephews, and friends.

  Born in Leesville, she was one of two daughters born to Drewie
William Newman, and Eula Stephens Newman. She graduated from
Leesville High school in 1933, and attended La. Normal College in
Natchitoches for a year. She graduated from Tyler Business
College in 1935, and accepted a position with the La. Senate as a
secretary that same year. It was in her position with the Senate,
that she met and married her husband, former Congressman T. A.
Thompson of Ville Platte.

  Mrs. Thompson was employed with the prestigious law firm of
Breazeale, Sachse, and Wilson in Baton Rouge, for 36 years. She
retired in 1989.

  She traveled extensively in Europe and England in her younger
years. In Baton Rouge, she was a member of the Arts and Crafts
Council, and Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church.