Obituaries: Mrs. Jesse Durham, 1950, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 9, 1950 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. Jesse Durham Funeral Services Held Thursday

Funeral services for Mrs. Jesse Durham, 55, wife of a former Winnfield post
office employee, were held at Sardis Baptist Church Thursday at 2 p.m. with
the pastor, Rev. W. C. Bounds, and Rev. Alwin Stokes assisting Rev. H. O.
Worthy of Pelican with the rites.  Burial was in the Sardis Cemetery.

Mrs. Durham, who has been residing with her family in Pelican, La., for the
past 15 years, died Tuesday night in a Pleasant Hill hospital from a heart
ailment.  She will be remembered as the former Cora Killingsworth.

Surviving are her husband, Jesse Durham, an employee of the Pelican post
office; two daughters, Mrs. John Brewer (Marie) and Mrs. George Curry (Hazel),
both of Baton Rouge; one son, Thomas Durham, Bunkie; her mother, Mrs. Amanda
Killingsworth Gates of Baton Rouge; two sisters, Mrs. John L. Gates, Monroe,
Mrs. Jay Campbell, Baton Rouge; four brothers, Perry Killingsworth of Saline
Lake, Iley of Montgomery, Frank of Baton Rouge, and Dewey of Ft. Worth.