Obituaries: Ida Mary Webb McElroy, 1963, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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Last Rites For Mrs. J. H. McElroy Friday At 2 P.M.

Mrs. J. H. McElroy, 84, a resident of Winnfield for the past 20 years and
prior to that a resident of Atlanta since the age of 12, died in a Winnfield
hospital at 1:30 p.m. January 9 after a short illness.  She was a native of
Magnolia, Arkansas.

Mrs. McElroy was a devout member of the First Baptist Church and the WMU.  She
recently was honored as the oldest member of the Home Demonstration Council
in Winn Parish.  Her father, the late J. M. Webb, was a pioneer Winn resident,
having served the parish as a police jury member from the Atlanta area in the
early days.

Last rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, January 11, in the Southern
Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. W. L. Holcomb and the Rev. Kenneth Wall
officiating.  Burial will be in the Atlanta Cemetery.

Mrs. McElroy is survived by two sons, Dallas and Ardis McElroy of Winnfield;
four daughters, Mrs. A. E. Davis of Shreveport, Mrs. Stephen Juneau
of Topeka, Kans., Mrs. B. F. Reinking, Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs. Lunsford
G. Bates of Fort Worth, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Groves, Winnfield, and
Mrs. Pearl Boelin of Alexandria; 13 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, and
six great great grandchildren.