Gilchrist 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: Gilchrist, Lois Erwin 26 Oct 2006 Nov, 2006 Jerry Nelson ************************************************************************* Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 10/26/2006 GILCHRIST, LOIS ERWIN Lois Erwin Gilchrist, 84, of Hammond, died Wednesday, October 25, 2006, in North Oaks Medical Center. She was born July 7, 1922, in Stoney Point, Louisiana, daughter of the late Jim and Emily Hunt Erwin. Surviving are four sons, Maurice Welsh, Mark Bickford, Steve Bickford, and Ronald Welsh; four grandchildren, Maurice James Welsh, Michele Welsh, Tracy Bickford, and Kristy Welsh; two great-grandchildren, Paula Nicole Welsh and Kymberlie Welsh. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Maurice F. Welsh, second husband, Jesse Bickford, and third husband, Leo Gilchrist; two sisters Callie Strahan and Beatrice Bankston; and seven brothers, Robert, Dudley, Bill, Dick, Joe, Clyde, and Dallas Erwin. Friends will be received Thursday, October 26, 2006, at Harry McKneely & Son in Hammond from 6 PM til 10 PM, and after 8 AM on Friday until the 11 AM Funeral Home Chapel Service. Interment will follow in the Loranger Community Cemetery, Loranger. Email condolences to: hmckneely@i-55.com / subject line: Gilchrist. *************************************************************************