Obit: Mary Mayes, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the October 14, 1949 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Mary Mayes Dies October 6 At 75, Buried Friday

Mother of Local Woman Had Lived Here Nine Years


Mrs. Mary Bell Mayes, mother of Mrs. F. D. Tarver of Winnfield and a local
resident for nine years, died in a hospital here last Thursday, October 6,
1949 at the age of 75 years.  
Funeral services were conducted at the Hixson Brothers Funeral Home at 9 a.m.
on October 8, with the Rev. Fred S. Flurry, pastor of the First Methodist
Church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, and interment was in the Greenwood Cemetery in
Alexandria.

Pallbearers were Ben Prive, Rugus Rogers, and H. E. Harlan of Winnfield,
Robert McCoy and Ed Bowie of Pineville, and Horace Stiles of Alexandria.

In addition to Mrs. Tarver, the deceased is survived by a son, James E. Mayes
of New Mexico, two brothers, William Bell and Samuel H. Bell, one
granddaughter and two great grandchildren.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)