Obituary for Mrs. Eva M. Norwood, Tensas Parish, Louisiana
From the Tensas Gazette of December 8, 1999
Submitted by Edith Ziegler

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     Services for Mrs. Eva M. Norwood, 80 of Winnsboro were held at
10 a.m. Monday, December 6, 1999 at St. Joseph Baptist Church with
Rev. Keith Stevens officiating. Interment was at Stevenson Cemetery
under the direction of Community Memorial Funeral Home of Winnsboro.
     Mrs. Norwood died Friday, December 3, 1999 at Franklin Medical
Center, Winnsboro. Mrs. Norwood was a native of Mississippi and a past
resident of Tensas Parish. She was a homemaker and a member of St.
Joseph Baptist Church.
     She is preceded in death by her husband, Thurmon Jimmy Norwood.
Survivors include her childrren, Joan Norwood Walker of Bridge City, Tx;
Jimmy Carl Norwood of Silsbee, Tx; Sherry Norwood Stevenson of Albany,
CA; Lanny Dale Norwood of Bossier City, LA; and Nan Norwood Barnes of
Vicksburg, MS. She is also survived by two sisters, Mavis Fortenberry
of Winnsboro, and Inez Balsters of Topeka, KS; two brothers, Jerry
Meeks of Rayville; 13 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren; and a host
of nieces and nephews.
     Grandsons and great-grandsons served as pallbearers.