Obituaries: Leckie Mitchell Jennings, 1972, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 20, 1972 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. Jennings, Winn Native, Succumbs

Mrs. Leckie Mitchell Jennings, of Coushatta, Louisiana, Winn native, died
Thursday morning, December 14, 1972 in a hospital in Shreveport.  She was 61
years of age.

A graduate of Louisiana State University, Mrs. Jennings was a retired welfare
worker with the Louisiana Welfare Department (Red River Parish).

Mrs. Jennings was a native of Winn Parish.  Upon graduating from Louisiana
State University she was employed as a professional welfare worker with the
Louisiana Welfare Department, Red River Parish.  She made her home in
Coushatta, Louisiana where she lived until the time of her death.

She was for many years a member of the First Baptist Church of Coushatta.

Mrs. Jennings was the daughter of the late Ed Mitchell and Mrs. Lula Luther
Mitchell of the Wheeling community.  She had attended public schools in Winn
Parish and graduated form the Montgomery, Louisiana High School.

Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, December 15 in the First
Baptist Church of Coushatta, with the Rev. Jack Shaw, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, Winn Parish, near Montgomery.

Mrs. Jennings is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Anne Marie Davis Forrest of
Shreveport, Louisiana; two sisters, Mrs. V. L. Shelton, Winnfield, and Mrs. E.
L. Moss, Springhill; three brothers, Roy D. Mitchell of Amite, Dr. John H.
Mitchell of Lafayette, and Dr. Guy C. Mitchell of Waco, Texas; one grandson,
and several nieces and nephews.