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Thurmond, L. Melinda Setta    10 Dec 2003    Dec, 2003    Don Johnson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  12/10/2003
THURMOND, L. MELINDA SETTA    

A resident of Denham Springs, she died Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003, at her home. She was 
51 and a native of Ponchatoula. She was a U.S. Air Force veteran. Visitation at 
Seale Funeral Home, Denham Springs, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003. 
Visitation at New Beulah Baptist Church, Baptist, from 9 a.m. until service at 10 a.m. 
Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, conducted by the Rev. Leslie Gains. Burial in Gatlin Cemetery, 
Baptist. Survived by a son and daughter-in-alw, Chad David and Sarah Elizabeth Brown 
Setta, Copperas Cove, Texas; five sisters, Hellen King Hampton, Denham Springs, 
Margaret Carroll King Brown, Vero Beach, Fla., Yvonne King Rauenheimo, Pensacola, 
Fla., Jeffie Jean King Bourgeois Caston, Baton Rouge, and Hilda King Chapman, Olive 
Branch, Miss.; two brothers, John F. King, Tennessee, and William E. King, Baptist; 
and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her husband, William Kenneth 
Thurmond; father, Johnnie Edward King; mother Oranell Goza Davis; and two sisters, 
Alice Faye King and Mary Joy King Ferrill. She was a member of DAV and was also a 
former substitute teacher, Girl Scout leader and sheriff's deputy. 

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