Obituaries Tensas Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Edith Ziegler ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** , 16 SEP 2001 Adele Newell Starr Funeral services for Adele Newell Starr, 93 were held on September 6, 2001 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Interment followed at Forest Hills. Mrs. Starr died September 3, 2001 on Signal Mountain. She was born in Tensas Parish in 1908. Mrs. Starr was the daughter of Ross Wade Newell and Irene McMillan Newell of Lake Place Plantation, Newellton. She was preced in death by her husband of 59 years; three sisters, Mary Kirk Burnside, Irene Shields, and Roslyn Watson. She is survived by a sister, Naomi Kelly of Fort Worth, Texas; three children, Joan Starr Lindop of Prospect, Kentucky, Hal Starr, Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina, Dr. Kirk Starr of Tacoma, Washington; eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren.