Obituaries: Ida Stoker Varnado, Sabine Parish V-653 Source: Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov. 2, 1945 Submitted by: Jerry Nelson ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Mrs. Ida Varnado Funeral at Fort Jesup Church Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Varnado, age 72 years, who died 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at her home near Robeline, were held 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Fort Jesup Baptist church with Rev. J. C. Clement, pastor First Baptist church, Many, and Rev. Adkins, pastor Fort Jesup Baptist church, officiating. Mrs. Varnado was born near Fort Jesup, lived all her life there. She is survived by: five daughters, Mrs. Reuben Goodman, Many, Mrs. Henry Mims, Robeline, Mrs. Raymond Salter, Noble, Ill., Mrs. Ray Winn and Mrs. Melvin Rhodes, both of Shreveport; three sons, John and Morris, both of Many, Otha, Flanklin; 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren; one sister, Miss Jessie Stoker, Fort Jesup; three brothers, Allen and Riley Stoker, both of Fort Jesup, and Robert Stoker, Lake Charles. The pallbearers were grandsons, Gene Parker, Many, Gordon Parker, Shreveport, O. E. Varnado Jr., Robeline, Cecil Mims, Many, Donald Wilford, Shreveport; son-in-law, M. C. Rhodes, Shreveport; a friend, Tom Smith, Robeline.