Submitted by Gina Sherrard

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Please note I do not know what newspaper this ran in. This is from the 
collection of the late Ora Ward Manning, mother of Peggy Rockett.

                                Mrs. Leona McAdams

Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Brantley McAdams, 80, will be held at 3 p.m. 
today in the Eastside Baptist Church with Revs M.L. Graham, O.J. Owens, and 
Jim Edmonds officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery under 
the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home.
Mrs. McAdams died early Saturday at her residence on Highway 80 East.
She is survived by her husband, W.M. McAdams; two sons, Harvel O. McAdams, 
Monroe, and Dewey McAdams, of Lafayette; four daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Hogan, 
Start, Miss Ruby McAdams, Mrs. Gloria D. LaSalle, and Mrs. Jenny Collins, 
all of Monroe; two brothers, Charlie D. Brantley, and Marlon Brantley, both 
of Downsville; eight sisters, Mrs. Ezemel Antley, Mrs. J.G. Allen, Mrs. 
Lottie Stiles, Mrs. Audrey Skains and Mrs. Milred Mann, all of Downsville; 
Mrs. Shelton Allen of Bastrop, Mrs. Maureen Bridges, Magnolia, Ark., and 
Mrs. Shirely Crain, West Monroe; her mother Mrs. Emma Brantley, Downsville; 
17 grandchildren and one great- grandchild.
Pallbearers will be Basil Williams, Doug Tolbert, Charles Harris, Olin 
Heavens, Johnny Parker and Chester Netherly.
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Note from Shawn Martin, 11-12-01:
Mulhern Memorial Cemetery Records.  Leona's gravestone has her birthdate as 
September 3, 1903 and date of death as December 12, 1970. 

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