Kitchens obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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Kitchens, Dessie Bigner     10 Nov 2003    Nov 2003    Don Johnson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  11/10/2003

KITCHENS, DESSIE BIGNER    
A resident of Pumpkin Center, she died Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003, at Heritage
Manor Nursing Home, Baton Rouge. She was 93 and a native of Brookhaven,
Miss. Visitation at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home chapel, Hammond, from
9 a.m. until religious service at 11 a.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev.
Leslie Gaines and Deacon Ed Foster. Interment in Parklawn Memorial Gardens.
Survived by a daughter, Carol Anne Kitchens Hellmers, Holden; a son, James
A. Kitchens, Sulphur Springs, Texas; two foster daughters, Marilyn Dawson,
Pumpkin Center, and Linda Eudy, Hemphill, Texas; two sisters, Geneva
McBride, Winter Park, Fla., and Lorene Poole, Baton Rouge; a brother, James
Bigner, Winter Park; five grandchildren, Jeff Kitchens, Richard Hellmers,
Ginger Henry, Jill Prevost and William Hughes; and three great-grand-
children, Joey Henry and Kaitlyn and Savanna Prevost. Preceded in death by
her husband, Jack Carroll Kitchens; parents, William "Bill" and Ida Bell
Wallace Bigner; a sister, Billie Ruth Cross; and three brothers, Daryl,
Wayne and Norman Bigner. In lieu of flowers, family requests memorials to
New Beulah Baptist Church, 44574 Parsonage Road, Hammond, LA 70403.  

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