Obituaries: Joan Long Eagles, 1937, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 23, 1937 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. Joan Eagles, Winnfield Life-Long Citizen, Dies

Funeral Services Were Conducted Friday Afternoon

Mrs. Joan Eagles, 78, widow of the late Ted Eagles, died at her home here,
Thursday, December 16, at 8:30 p.m. following a two weeks illness.  Funeral
services were held from the First Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Friday.  Rev. B. C.
Land, pastor, delivered the funeral address and Rev. Alwin Stokes,
Presbyterian pastor, and Rev. G. A. Morgan, Methodist minister, assisted in
the last rites.  Interment was made in the local cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased: W. M. Grigsby, Ed, Joe,
and Ulysses Grigsby, Earl Lamar and G. P. Eagles.

Mrs. Eagles, a sister of the late H. P. Long, Sr., and G. P. Long, Sr., was a
life resident of Winnfield.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church
here. 

Both families, Eagles and Long, are pioneer residents of this section.

Survivors are two sons, Earl Eagles of Shreveport, and G. P. Eagles of
Winnfield; four daughters, Mrs. T. G. Smith of DeRidder, La., Mrs. J. L. Land
of Shreveport, Mrs. W. W. Grigsby and Mrs. Guy Johnson of Winnfield; one
brother, Albert J. Long of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. Alice Wright and
Mrs. Olive Wright, of Winnfield, Mrs. Julia Nugent of Alexandria; thirteen
grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

A large number of relatives from various sections of Louisiana and Arkansas
attended the funeral.