Obituaries: Mary Elizabeth Price Kornegay, 1945, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 27, 1945 Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral services for Mrs. W. W. Kornegay, 61, who succumbed in the Baptist
Hospital, Alexandria, Thursday at 9:15 a.m. will be held at the Dodson Baptist
Church Friday, December 28, 1945 with the Rev. H. H. McBride of Winnfield and
the Rev. Perry Wallace of Sarepta in charge.  Burial will be made in the Zion
Hill Cemetery at Tannehill.

Mrs. Kornegay had been ill since Thanksgiving and had been in the hospital a
week preceding her death.  A native of Dothan, Alabama, she was Mary Elizabeth
Price before her marriage to W. W. Kornegay on October 26, 1902.

Mr. and Mrs. Kornegay moved to Louisiana in 1904 and settled in the Dodson
community.  Eight children were born to them, three of whom preceded Mrs.
Kornegay in death.  She was a member of the Dodson Baptist Church.

Surviving are her husband, W. W. Kornegay of Dodson; three daughters, and two
sons, Henry Kornegay nad Mrs. Lynton mathews of Dodson; Mrs. W. L. Sowers
of Winnfield; Mrs. George Barnes of Quinlon, Texas; and Lester Kornegay of
Dothan, Ala.  She also leaves two brothers and four sisters.