Obituaries: Mattie Smith Ladner, 1983, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 18, 1983 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. Mattie Ladner

Mrs. Ladner, age 83, of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, died at 4:45 a.m. Sunday,
February 6, 1983 at Seventh Ward General Hospital, Hammond, La.  Funeral
services were conducted by her church pastor, Dr. Pruett, and her former
pastor, Dr. Lawrence Clegg.  Entombment followed at the Ponchatoula Mausoleum.

Survivors include her husband, of Ponchatoula; a daughter, Mrs. Mayo (Jane)
Faith of El Paso, Texas; a stepson, three grandchildren, three great
grandchildren, and a step grandchild.

She had been an active member of the First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula, a
very active participant in community and political affairs, and was a
secretary of the Housing Authority in Ponchatoula.

Mrs. Ladner will be remembered in Winnfield as the sister of the late Albert
Smith, Sr., and Houston Smith, also the late Henry Smith of Monroe and the
late attorney, James I. Smith, of New Orleans and Ponchatoula.  She was a 1918
graduate of Winnfield High School, a former public school teacher, and a
member of the First Baptist Church in Winnfield where she was a Sunday School
teacher and active in Women's Missionary Union work.  She drove a bookmobile
for Winn parish Library for many years.

She is mourned locally by several of her school classmates, one of whom is
also a long time Lafayette Street neighbor, Miss Lowice Teddlie; her sister in
law, Mrs. Houston (Ruth) Smith; a great nephew, Douglas H. Allen; a number of
cousins and other relatives, and a host of friends.