Obitutary: Kate Alley Submitted by:Carolyn Avery on 10 May 2004 Source: West Carroll Gazette 6 Aug 1936 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** MRS. KATE ALLEY, 84 SUCCUMBS PIONEER RESIDENT BURIED SATURDAY AFTERNOON An early settler of West Carroll and a member of one of the parish's leading families, Mrs. Kate Alley, 84, succumbed Friday at Forest Hill, in Rapides Parish. Funeral services were conducted and interment made at the New Forest Cemetery Saturday afternoon, with many friends of the deceased present to pay final respects to her memory. The Rev. Jack H. Midyett, pastor of the Pioneer charge of the Methodist Church officiated Mrs. Alley had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Willis L. Ross and Mr. Ross, at Pioneer. At the time of her death she was visiting a grand-daughter, Mrs. Walter Cambell and Mr. Campbell. A former resident of "Old" Floyd, she was at one time postmistress there.