Obituaries:  Joan Eagles, 1937, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Deanna Simmons Hess, RR 9, Box 1548, Livingston, TX 77351
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THE WINNFIELD-NEWS AMERICAN
Friday,  December 24, 1937

Mrs. Joan Eagles Dies At Her Home Thursday, Dec. 16

Funeral Services Following Day and Interment in Local Cemetery

    Mrs. Joan Eagles, age 78, died at her home here at 8:30 o'clock
Thursday night of last week after an illness of several weeks.  Mrs.
Eagles had been in failing health for the past few years but her
condition did not become acute until a few days before her death and
after she was stricken with pneumonia
     The widow of the late Edward Eagles, a former postmaster and
enterprising business man of Winnfield,  Mrs. Eagles was also the sister
of the late Huey P. Long, Sr.
    She is survived by two sons, George P. Eagles of Winnfield and Earl
Eagles of Shreveport; four daughters, Mrs. W. W. Grisby and Mrs. Guy
Johnson of Winnfield,  Mrs. T. G. Smith of DeRidder and Mrs. J. L. Land
of Shreveport; three sisters,  Mrs. Julia Nugent of Alexandria,  Mrs. S.
A. Wright and Mrs. Olive Wright of Winnfield and one brother, A. J. Long
of Winnfield.
    Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the
First Baptist church here conducted by the Rev. B. C. Land, pastor,
assisted by Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian church
and Rev. G. A. Morgan of the First Methodist church.  Interment was made
in the Winnfield cemetery under the direction of Walsh Funeral Home.
    Pall bearers were the grandsons of the deceased, G. P. and Lamar
Eagles; W. M., Joe Earl, Ulyssess and Ed Grigsby.