Obituaries: Allie Thornton Gentry, 1950, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 22, 1950 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Last Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. J. I. Gentry

Mrs. Allie Thornton Gentry, wife of the late J. I. Gentry, died in a Monroe
hospital June 23, 1950.  A native of Sikes, she was a member of the Baptist
Church.

Funeral services were held at the Sikes Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Saturday with
the pastor, Rev. A. D. Murry, officiating.  Burial was in the Sikes Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Reginald Thornton, Lloyd Willis, Donald Thornton, LaVelle
Gentry, Cleo Thompson, and W. R. Thompson.

She is survived by six children, Mrs. S. C. Dortch, Mrs. Travis Parker,
Grayson; Mrs. Carl Underwood, West Monroe, Mrs. Roy Runyon, Sulphur; Jim
Gentry, West Monroe, J. I. Gentry, Jr., Westlake; three sisters, Mrs. Horace
Thompson, Sulphur, Mrs. Stanley Branch, Sikes, and Mrs. White Usrey, Baskin;
three brothers, Hershel Thornton, West Monroe, Dewey and Ray, of Sikes, and
Eros respectively.