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Please note I do not know what newspaper this ran it. This is from the collection 
of Peggy Manning Rockett.

		Mrs. Willie Belle Bevans Odom

Laran, LA - Services for Mrs. Willie Belle Bevans Odom, 81, of Laran, will be at 2:00, Tuesday, 
December 27, 1994 at Hopewell Baptist Church, with Dr. Connie Ward and Rev. David Martin 
officiating. Burial will follow in the Zion Hill Cemetery, under the direction of Farrar Funeral 
Home of Farmerville.
Mrs. Odom was born on October 26, 1913, in Farmerville and went to be with the Lord after a full 
happy life, on December 24, 1994, at Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home after a brief illness from 
cancer. She was a lifelong resident of Union Parish, a member of Hopewell Baptist Church, and was 
a retired cafeteria worker for the Union Parish School Board. She was preceded in death by her 
husband, Wilfred Odom.
Survivors include her two sons and daughters-in-law, James Delwyn and Dortha Jo of Bernice, Jesse 
Reed and Judy Odom of St. Louis, MO; a daughter and son-in-law, Mary Alice and Murray Dudley of 
Bossier City; six grandchildren, Janice O. Savage, and Pamela O. Jones, both of Farmerville, 
Doug Odom and Donna Hogan, both of St. Louis, MO, Roger Dudley of Spearsville, and Rena Dudley 
of Bossier City; six great grandchildren, Amy Savage, Greg Hicks, and Sarah Jones all of 
Farmerville, Ashley and Brittany Hogan, both of St. Louis, MO and Zack Odom Dudley of Spearsville; 
a host of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Roger Dudley, Greg Hicks, Phil Jones, Dan Hogan, David Wayne Bevans, and 
Johnny Creed.
Visitation will be from 4 to 9 PM, Monday at the Funeral Home.
 
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