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Please note I do not know which newspaper this ran in. This is from the 
collection of the late Ora Ward Manning, the mother of Peggy Rockett. 
Mrs. Ruth D. Ward died in December 1980.

                                Mrs. Ruth D. Ward

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Day Ward, 70, of Marion, were held at 2 p.m. 
last Wednesday in Farrar Funeral home Chapel in Farmerville with the Rev. 
Roger Johnson officiating.
Interment followed in Mt. Union Cemetery near Spearsville.
Mrs. Ward died last Monday in her residence after a short illness.
A native of Union Parish, she was a member of the Fairbanks Baptist Church 
and was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, T.A. Ward of Marion; four sons, Kermit Ward 
of Bangor, Maine, Gayle Ward of New Orleans, Ralph Ward of West Monroe, and 
Ken Ward of West Monroe; two daughters, Mrs. Vernard "Jerry" Utley of Altus, 
Oklahoma, and Mrs. Finley "Shirley" Corkern of Baton Rouge; a brother, 
Donald Day of Marion, two sisters, Mrs. Audrey Bennett of West Monroe, and 
Mrs. Najarta Smith of New Orleans; 15 grandchildren and three 
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were R.N. Lanningham, Steve Struben, Robert Bass, Zeke Leake, 
Marvin Moon, and Wilbur Rogers.

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