Obituaries: Isiah & Myrtle Davenport, Brenda Fobbs, 1970, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 30, 1970 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Negroes Killed In Collision, Buried Here

Funeral services were held Sunday in Winnfield at Cedar Grove Church for
Myrtle Davenport, 42, of Monroe, and Brenda Fobbs, 13, of Winnfield, who
together with Isiah Davenport, 55, of Monroe, husband of Myrtle, were all
killed in a car-truck pre-dawn collision near Monroe Thursday of last week.

The three were returning to Monroe from Winnfield where they had been visiting
relatives.

Myrtle Davenport and her niece, Brenda Fobbs, were buried at the Cedar Grove
Cemetery Sunday and Myrtle's husband, Isiah Davenport, was buried in Ouachita
Parish.

Myrtle is survived by her mother, Mary West of Winnfield; three sisters,
Ernestine Hall, Eddie Ruth Fobbs, and Olevia Penneywell, all of Winnfield; two
brothers, Allen and Thurmond West, Sagniaw, Michigan; also a daughter, Gloria
Jean Davenport.

Brenda Fobbs is survived by her father, Mozelle Fobbs and her mother, Eddie
Ruth Fobbs, and three sisters, all of Winnfield.