Obituaries: Birdie Shumake Long, 1984, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 11, 1984 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Birdie Shumake Long

Services were held for Mrs. Birdie Shumake Long, a long time resident of
Winnfield, at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 5, 1984, at Southern Funeral Home
in Winnfield, Louisiana with Dr. Calvin Phelps, Pastor of First Baptist Church
of Winnfield officiating.  Burial followed in Winnfield Cemetery.

Special music was provided at the service by Jim Bob Key of Natchitoches who
sang several of Mrs. Long's favorite hymns.  Mrs. Larry L. Price presided at
the organ and accompanied Mr. Key.

Mrs. Long, 91, died at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday, January 3, 1984, in Alexandria,
Louisiana at Wilshire Manor Nursing Home where she had been a resident since
1977.

Birdie Shumake Long, whose leap year birthrate was February 29, 1892, was born
in the Macedonia Community of Winn Parish.  She was the daughter of William F.
Shumake and Darinda Stark Shumake whose families were early pioneer settlers
from Georgia.  She was married to Floyd H. Long in Atlanta, Louisiana on
October 1, 1912, and they moved to Winnfield in 1921 where they reared their
two sons and a daughter.  In August, 1973, she married Charles E. Long of
Luling, Texas and Winnfield, a lifelong friend and cousin of her first 
husband.  Charles Long died January 26, 1980.

Mrs. Long was a longstanding member of First Baptist Church in Winnfield and
in her earlier years was active in the work of the church she loved so very
much.  She especially enjoyed sacred music and attending hymn singing
concerts.

Survivors include two sons, Colonel Floyd H. Long (U. S. Army, Ret.), New
Orleans, Louisiana, and Congressman Gillis Long of Alexandria, Louisiana and
Washington, D. C.; six grandchildren, Frank G. Fletcher, Jr., Judy Fletcher,
Leary, Mark Long Fletcher, Margaret Long Pierce, George Harrison Long, and
Janis Catherine Long; and four great grandsons, Wilson M. Leary III, Brian and
Stephanie Pierce, and Dore' Fletcher.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church in Winnfield, the American Heart
Association, and the American Cancer Society in the name of her late daughter,
Doris Long Fletcher, who died of cancer.