Obituaries: Mary Collier Lewis, 1934, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 26, 1934 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. Mary Lewis, Former Resident of Parish Dies

Funeral Services Held Monday Afternoon at First Baptist Church

Mrs. Mary Collier Lewis, 81, died at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs.
Vivian Bonnette Rust, Alexandria, at 9:12 Sunday night.  She is survived by
her granddaughter and her great granddaughter, Miss Helen Rust.

Funeral services were held at the Atlanta Church, Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, following prayer at the home of Mrs. Rust in Alexandria.  Interment
was made in the Atlanta Cemetery.  A host of friends attended the last rites.

Mrs. Lewis was born on October 5, 1852, at Newman, Georgia, and came to
Louisiana in a covered wagon in 1859, settling in Winn Parish.  Her father,
who was Rev. Thomas Stokely Collier, was a native of Tennessee and was
instrumental in the founding of Atlanta College and was also an aid in getting
the public schools of Atlanta recognized by the State Department of Education.
He was a physician as well as an educator.

Mrs. Lewis followed in the footsteps of her father by helping educational work
in Winn Parish, spending the early part of her life teaching.  She has helped
to educate twenty people.  Her mother was Miss Lucinda Smith and the family is
related to the Hardeman family of Georgia.

She was one of the early graduates of the Louisiana State Normal College.  She
was married twice, once to George A. Thrasher.  To this union was born one
daughter, Irene, who was a wife of the late Dr. J. V. Bonnette of Alexandria.
She was later married to George C. Lewis.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church and was a charitable person
as well as a devout Christian.