Obituaries: Exar E. Coburn Gresham, 1952, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 13, 1952 Winnfield News-American or Winn Parish Enterprise

Atlanta Church and Community Leader Is Buried Tuesday

Mrs. H. A. Gresham Succumbs Monday To Lingering Illness

Mrs. H. A. Gresham, 57, prominent Atlanta church and civic leader, died at her
home at 8:45 a.m. Monday, June 9, 1952 following a long illness.  Funeral
services were conducted at the Atlanta Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday
by the Rev. Ernest Walker, pastor, and interment was in the Atlanta Cemetery
under direction of the Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

A native of Claiborne Paris, near Homer, Mrs. Gresham was married at
Clarence, La., May 14, 1911.  She was active in the Women's Missionary and
other departments of the Atlanta Baptist Church, and in community affairs, and
was president of the Atlanta Home Demonstration Club.

Survivors include her  husband,______________________________________________,
_______________boro; four sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Dick, Mrs. H. T. Watts, Mrs.
G. G. Smith, and Mrs. Joseph Gordon, all of Shreveport; and two brothers, O.
L. Coleman and Thomas Coleman also of Shreveport.

Pallbearers were John Henry Barnes, Kenneth Williams, Donald Harrison, Ezeb
Vercher, Archie Lovell, Granville Kilpatrick, Prentiss Cook, and Emmett
Thompson.

(At least two lines of this obit were creased and illegible on the microfilm;
also, brothers are listed as Colemans, but Briley's Cemetery Directory lists
Exar E. Coburn Gresham)