Obituaries:  Ophelia Webb, Sabine Parish       W-100
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 28, 1947
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net




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The Sabine Index - Ophelia Webb

  28 Feb 1947 - Funeral services for Mrs. Ophelia Webb, age 87
years, who died at her home in Zwolle Saturday at 11:45 a.m.,
after several weeks illness were held Sunday from the Zwolle
First Baptist church at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Joe Flanigan, former
pastor of the Zwolle church, officiating.

  She was born in Miller county, Ark., Sept. 26, 1861, and came to
Sabine parish as a bride on the first passenger train over the
T&P railway to Pleasant Hill. She was the daughter of the late
Thomas W. Hooker of Alabama and Betty Pratt Hooker.

  Mrs. Webb was a charter member of the First Baptist church of
Zwolle. She was a loyal church member, an outstanding Christiann
and at the time of her death she was the oldest living member of
the congregation here. She was also a kind friend and a good
neighbor to all who came her way. Her deeds of kindness were
manifold and her friends were legion.

  Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Clara Isgate, Zwolle; three
sons, Ike B. Webb, Sugarland, Texas, Thomas Cleveland Webb, Baton
Rouge, and William Clyde Webb of Shreveport; one brothers, David
Wallace Hooker, Zwolle; tow sisters, Mrs. T. J. Cranford of
Blackwell, Okla., Mrs. Claude Hopkins of Wichita Falls, Texas;
four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Webb reared
Rose Clark McQuade of Chicago, Illinois, who was taken into her
home when still an infant.

  Active pallbearers were Senator R. L. Gay, H. H. Thomas, Louis
Lefkovits, Roy Sibley, A. A. Drewitt and C. J. Davis.