Obituaries: Bertha Wallace Kidd, 1973, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 31, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. E. E. Kidd, 89, Dies; Last Rites Tuesday

Mrs. Bertha Wallace Kidd, 89, who has made her home in Metairie, Louisiana,
for the past number of years, died in that city at 8:45 p.m., Saturday,
January 27, 1973.

A native of Winnfield, Mrs. Kidd was the daughter of the late Judge J. T.
Wallace and Olive Peters Wallace, descendants of pioneer Winn Parish families.
She was the widow of the late attorney at law E. E. Kidd.

Mrs. Kidd was active in church and civic clubs in Winnfield and usually
reported events of these groups for the newspapere.  For many years she served
as clerk of the First Baptist Church of Winnfield of which she was a member.
In her early years she was a school teacher.  At the time of her retirement
she was executive secretary of the Winn Parish Unit of the American Red Cross.

Last rites were conducted in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home Tuesday at 11
a.m. with the Rev. Calvin Phelps officiating.  Burial was in the Winnfield
cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were great nephews Cas Moss III, Stuart Storey, V. M.
Russell, Jr., Bill Willis, Tommy Wallace, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Russell, Luther
Moore.

Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. W. Lloyd (Olive Ann) Rau of Metarie.  Among
local survivors are two nephews, Dr. John T. Mosley and Casimer Moss, and one
niece, Mrs. Ophelia Storey, and a host of other relatives.