Essex obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by: Essex, Lula Mae 25 Aug 2000 Sep 2000 Don Johnson ******************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 8/25/2000 ESSEX, LULA MAE New Orleans - Lula Mae Essex, 61, died Aug. 19, 2000, at University Hospital, New Orleans. She was a native of Ponchatoula. Survivors include her mother, Rosa Badon, Ponchatoula; 11 daughters, Rosa Ray, Fredrick Denise Gardner, Beatrice Essex, Valire Collins, Beryl Porter, Gilda Lewis and Armanda Tornabar, all of New Orleans, Diane Harris, Joyce Ann Essex and Vera Ann Lyons, Kansas City, Kan., and Mary Francis Brooks, Houston; five sons, Thomas Russell, Terry Simmons and Paul A. Essex, New Orleans, Charles Ray Brooks, Kansas, and Wayne Brooks, Brownsville, Texas; sister, Beatrice Essex, New Orleans; two brothers, Lucious and Joe Lewis Badon, Ponchatoula. Philip Hospedales will conduct the funeral Saturday at 21st Century Congregational Baptist Church, New Orleans, at 11 a.m. and burial will be in Port Hudson National Cemetery, Port Hudson. N.A. James Funeral Home, Hammond, is in charge. ********************************************************************************