Assorted Obituaries from the Advocate, West Feliciana Par., La. File submitted by Donald W. Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THOMPSON, MAMIE BOWMAN FORT A native and resident of St. Francisville, she died at 11:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 1997, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. She conducted tours of her family's historic plantation home in St. Francisville. Visiting at Grace Episcopal Church, St. Francisville, 1:30 p.m. until religious services at 3 p.m. Thursday. Survived by a daughter, Mary Fort Thompson; a son-in-law, Dennis Brinkley Williamson, St. Francisville; a niece, Glendora White Stewart, Metairie; two nephews, Dr. Ernest Burton White Jr., New Orleans, and William Johnston Fort IV, Baton Rouge; and eight great-nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by husband, James Wallace Thompson; two sisters, Martha Fort White and Sadie Bowman Fort; and a brother, William Johnston Fort III. Pallbearers will be William Fort V, Thomas W. Klein, David Floyd, William Jerome III, Murrell Butler and Kirk Michel. Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., in charge of arrangements. PLETTINGER, MARGARET M. "MISS MOTT" A retired West Feliciana Parish School Board teacher and a resident and native of St. Francisville, she died at 6 a.m. Tuesday, April 28, 1998, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge. She was 79. Visiting was at Jackson Hall at Grace Episcopal Church, St. Francisville, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Visiting at the hall, 8:30 a.m. until religious services at the church at 11 a.m. Thursday, conducted by the Rev. Kenneth Dimmick. Interment in church cemetery. Survived by a sister, H. Anne Plettinger, Baton Rouge; a brother and sister-in-law, W.G. "Bill" and Leona Plettinger, Weyanoke; two nieces and spouses, Genevieve P. and John Barry, Weyanoke, and Katherine Anna "Kay" and Sonny Suggs, Baton Rouge; a nephew and spouse, Will and Lucy Plettinger, Weyanoke; and great-nieces and great-nephews and spouses, Margaret Anne and Bob Mitchell, Cheraw, S.C., Kathy and Tim Kane and their children, James and Madeleine, Baton Rouge, Leah and David Church and Daron Suggs, all of Lafayette. Preceded in death by parents, George L. and Anna Davidson Plettinger; three brothers, and a great-nephew, Lee S. Plettinger. Pallbearers will be Conville Lemoine, Al Lemoine, Walter Lemoine, Lloyd Lindsey, William M. Nelson, Butch Jones and Barry Root. Honorary pallbearers are Joe Tandy, Wendell Hall, W.C. Percy, Edgar Wheeler, Larry Dawson, Keith Hobgood, Morris Bennett and Dickie Prescott. She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, Grace Church Altar Guild, charter member of West Feliciana Historical Society and Reviewers Book Club. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations preferred to Grace Church Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 28, St. Francisville, 70775. Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., in charge of arrangements. WALDEN, JERELENE "JERRI" Retired from West Feliciana Parish school system and a resident of St. Francisville, she died at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, 1998, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. She was 65 and a native of Cleburne, Texas. Visiting at Charlet Funeral Home Inc., Zachary, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Visiting at First Baptist Church, St. Francisville, 8:30 a.m. until religious services at 10 a.m. Wednesday, conducted by the Rev. Joe Ratcliff. Interment in Starhill Cemetery, Starhill. Survived by father, Charles J. "Pete" Osborne, Cleburne; three sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Debbie Walden, Denham Springs, Terry and Louise Walden and Timothy "Tim" and Joyce Walden, all of St. Francisville; two brothers, Joe Osborne, Cleburne, and Ben H. Osborne, Castro Valley, Calif.; six grandchildren and a great-grandson. Preceded in death by husband, Gosey Eugene Walden; and mother, Frances Othelia Osborne. Pallbearers will be Shelby, Brandon and Randy Walden, John Osborne, Bob Walker and Harry Goodfellow. Honorary pallbearers are Gary Penton, Clyde Crowder, Pete Pittman, Floyd Simpkins, Don Howard, Russ Pruitt, Charles Osborne, Herbert Mulkey and John Grier Little. She was a member of First Baptist Church, St. Francisville. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are preferred to First Baptist Church Building Fund, St. Francisville. LAWSON, JOHN ALBERT A retired railroad conductor with GM&O Railroad, he died Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1998, at his residence in Clinton. He was 68, born in Bains and reared in Darlington. He was a U.S. Army veteran and received a Purple Heart. Visiting at Feliciana Baptist Church, Clinton, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and after 10 a.m. Thursday. Religious services at the church at 2 p.m. Thursday, conducted by the Rev. Tony Hand and the Rev. Tom Logan. Interment in Bluff Creek Cemetery. Survived by wife, Helen Bunch Lawson, Clinton; three daughters, Vickie Lawson Barnes and Cynthia Lawson Hooge, both of Clinton, and Joy Lawson Brumfield, Bogalusa; a son, John Mark Lawson, Clinton; three sisters, Pauline Lawson Bunch, Clinton, Annie Lawson Dowdy, Louisville, Miss., and Katherine Lawson Smith, Zachary; a brother, George Lawson, Franklinton; 10 grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and a great-grandchild. Preceded in death by parents, Bennett Baron and Bessie Venable Lawson. Pallbearers will be Talmadge Bunch, Bobby Hooge, Wayne Bunch, Dorman "Chip" Bunch, Darryl Bunch, Martin Bunch and William Cook. Honorary pallbearers are Fred Armstrong, Dr. Gerald Foret, Dr. John Piker, Charles A. Stark, Dorman Bunch, Scott Bunch, Louis Bunch and Terry Bunch. He was a graduate of Greensburg High School and a member of Wesley Chapel Church of Darlington. Charlet Funeral Home Inc., Clinton, in charge of arrangements.