Obituaries:  Effie D. Whatley, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       W-340
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 30, 1978
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Effie D. Whatley

  Effie Downs Whatley, 71, died Thursday night, Nov. 23, in a
local hospital.

  Services were Saturday at 2 p.m., in Hickory Grove Methodist
Church, with the Rev. J. D. McNeal officiating. Burial was in the
Bethany Cemetery, under the direction of the Blanchard-St. Denis
Funeral Home.

  Survivors include a stepmother, Winnie Bimer of Bentley; five
daughters, Alice Durr, Lela Durr, and Janelle Berly, all of
Marthaville, Retha Lauw of Robeline, and Alma Jean Glaspie of
Hornbeck; six sisters, Nonie Lofton, and Loretta Rambin, both of
Natchitoches, Mary Alice Murrary, and Lucille Carnline, both of
Robeline, Ellen Lewis of Lafayette, and Esther Campbell of
Belmont; seven brothers, Elmer Shoemaker, Joe Shoemaker, and
Luther Shoemaker, all of Robeline, J. C. Shoemaker, and Julius
Shoemaker, both of Coushatta, and Wiley Shoemaker of Texas, and
Hoyt Shoemaker of Hobbs, N. M.; 10 grandchildren; and 14 great
grandchildren.