Obit: Idella Oliver Drewett, 1965, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL. 32526 email or ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: September 23, 1965 Winn Parish Enterprise Mrs. Idella Oliver Drewett Expires Sunday, Sept. 19 Mrs. Idella Oliver Drewett, 78, died Sunday morning in a Winnfield Nursing Home after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel of the Southern funeral Home of Winnfield with the Rev. T. O. Gage and Rev. C. C. Martin officiating. Burial was in the Winnfield Cemetery. A native of Winn Parish and a member of the Church of God, Mrs. Drewett was the widow of the late W. U. Drewett, long time prominent business man of Winnfield. Survivors are two sons, Howard Drewett and Harold Drewett, both of Winnfield; a daughter, Mrs. Nannie Belle Byles of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. Cecil Rowe of Winnfield, Mrs. E. L. Brock and Mrs. Sallie Moore, both of Shreveport; two brothers, L. L. Oliver and D. L. Oliver, both of Shreveport, and seven grandchildren. Pall bearers were L. C. Carter, James Watts, Joe Watts, Eck Bozeman, R. D. Bevill, James H. Smith, Jr. (Note: Mrs. Drewett, my grandmother, had eight grandchildren rather than seven, and she was survived by only five of them. As to Idella Oliver Drewett's birthplace, a note in my father's papers stated that she had been born in Arcadia, LA.)