Tensas Parish Louisiana Obituaries Leola Turner Brown Extracted from the Tensas Gazette Submitted by Edith Ziegler, FEB 2002 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Leola Turner Brown Funeral services for Leola Turner Brown, 88, of Waterproof were held December 15, 2001 at Springhill Baptist Church. Interment was in Myrtle Grove Cemetery in Waterproof. Mrs. Brown was Born February 5, 1913 in St. Joseph to Frank and Katy Turner. She was preceded in death by her husband William Brown, Sr. and a son William Brown, Jr.; She is survived by five daughters; Louise Bethel and Frances Bailey of Waterproof, Betty Martin , Bridgeton, Missouri, Mary Felix, Haywood, California and Maulha Ballard of Torrence, California; two children she reared as her own, Torre White of Germany and Ahmad Brown of Baton Rouge; one brother Andrew Turner of Los Angeles, California, one sister Eloise Turner of New York; twenty six grand children, twenty three great grandchildren, and seven great great grandchildren.