Obituary for Winnie Matthews Robertson, Tensas Parish, Louisiana
From the Tensas Gazette, February 2, 2000
Submitted by Edith Ziegler

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     Mrs. Winnie Matthews Robertson aged 84 passed away on Monday,
January 24, in Monroe, Louisiana.
     Visitation was held at Comer Funeral Home in Ferriday on January
27, from 5 to 8 p.m.
     Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, January 28,
2000 at Comer Funeral Home Chapel in Ferriday with the Reverend Roger
Johnson officiating. Interment was held at the Monclova Cemetery near
Waterproof, Louisiana.
     Mrs. Robertson resided in West Monroe for the past year and was
formerly a resident of Waterproof. She was a member of the Monclova
Baptist Church near Waterproof and a retired store clerk.
     Mrs. Robertson was born on May 16, 1916 in Arkansas to John Henry
and Lou Ella Coleson Matthews, both of whom preceded her in death.
     She was also preceded in death by her husband, William C. Robertson
and here son Billy Robertson.
     She is survived by two daughters, Frances Bourgeois of Baton Rouge
and Carol Beasley of West Monroe, three brothers, Billy Matthews of 
Lake Providence, John and James Matthews both of Tallulah, two sisters,
Mattie Howard of Bastrop and Myrtle Floyd of Ferriday. She is also 
survived by nine grandchildren.