Obituary: Woodford Grady Humphries, Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edith Ziegler; 

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The Tensas Gazette of November 17, 1999

     Funeral services were held for Mr. Woodford Grady Humphries,
age 80, on Friday November 12, 1999, at the First Baptist Church of
Newellton at 2:00 p.m.  The Reverend Hugh Boswell and the Reverend
J. Fulton McGraw officiated. Burial followed in the Legion Memorial
Cemetery in Newellton under the direction of Crothers Funeral
Home of Tallulah.
      Mr. Humphries died Wednesday, November 10, in the Veterans
Administration Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, after a
lengthy illness. He was born in Lawson, Arkansas, and has lived in
Tensas Parish since 1951. He was a retired sawyer, a member of the
Church of Christ, and a Navy veteran of World War II.
     Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Gladys McGee Humphries of
Newellton, two sons, Jimmy Ray Humphries of Longview, Texas, Grady
Humphries of Port Gibson, Mississippi, two daughters, Linda Sanders
of Carthage, Mississippi, Sylvia Humphries of Newellton, Louisiana,
three step-daughters, Mary Buckels of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Marsha
Wyatt of Newellton and Brenda Fussell of Newellton, Louisiana. He
is also survived by seven grandchildren, nine great-grandhildren,
and eight step-grandchildren.
      Pallbearers were Frank Graves, Joe Gossett, Walter Wyatt,
Curtis Temple, James Bamburg, and Parnell Barfield.