Obituaries: Jesse J. Brister, 1968, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 10, 1968 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

J. J. Brister, 74, Succumbs; Rites Held Saturday

Jesse J. Brister, 74, of Sikes, died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, October 3, 1968 at
Columbia Heights Nursing Home.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

Funeral services were conducted at Hurricane Grove Baptist Church Saturday at
11 a.m. with Rev. Hardy Beaubouef, Rev. John Kitchingham, and Rev. Norris
Curry officiating.  Interment, under the direction of Southern Funeral Home,
was in the church cemetery.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alice Brister of Sikes; two sons, S. Sgt.
Huey P. Brister of Fort Riley, Kan., and J. H. Brister of Baton Rouge; six
daughters, Mrs. Louise Yelverton, Mrs. Eloise Strickland, and Mrs. Hilda
Shipp, all of Baton Rouge, Mrs. Frank Cannon of Monroe, Mrs. Christine Nettles
of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mrs. Ellen Kennedy of Falls Church, Va.; six
brothers, Spurgeon Brister of Sikes, Homer and Carl Brister of West Monroe,
Lawson Brister of Baton Rouge, Houston Brister of Sieper, and J. W. Brister of
Gardner; six sisters, Mrs. W. A. Willis of Sikes, Mrs. Maude Holley of
Bastrop, Mrs. Bernice Dyess, Mrs. Edgar Waldron, both of Gardner, Mrs. Lorene
Gray of Alexandria, and Mrs. Jettie Hahn of Houston; 15 grandchildren and six
great grandchildren.