Obituaries:  Gussie Bridges Vines, Sabine Parish       V-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 22, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Gussie Bridges Vines (Photo)

  Funeral services for Gussie Bridges Vines, 83, of Many, will be
held on Thursday, May 22, at 2 p.m., at the First United
Methodist Church in Many. Rev. George York of Arcadia will
officiate, with the Rev. Ray Rolon Spiller assisting.

  Mrs. Van Vines was born in Athens, and reared in Gibsland. She
was the daughter of Alonzo Davis Bridges and Sarah Bledsoe
Bridges. She was a charter member of the American Legion
Auxiliary, Unit 172, a charter member of the Order of the Eastern
Star, and a charter member of the Many Book Club. She was a
member of the Sabine Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution. She was also a member of the Shreveport Woman's
Department Club, and attended the first European tour with the
club group.

  Survivors are two daughters, Betty Vines Diesen of Whittier,
California, and Catherine Vines Davis of Many; two grandchildren,
Frederick Van Diesen, and Nannette Elizabeth Dieson; and a
sister, Mrs. Bonnie Bridges Henry of Shreveport.

  Pallbearers will be R. L. Maxey, Louis Maxey, Dick Underdown,
John Varnado, Gailor Phares, Michael Dailey, Tommy Dailey, and
Edward Lee Vines.

  Honorary pallbearers will be Emery Williams, Robert Cole, Horace
Tompkins, Jack Carmichael, Georg Boyens, Roy Alford, Marian
Tannehill, John V. Nash, and Ralph Vines.