Obituaries: Birdie Howell Stell Melton, 1950, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 7, 1950 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mrs. Edd Melton Succumbs; Burial Here September 3

Funeral services were held Sunday, September 3, 1950, for Mrs. Birdie Howell
Melton, wife of Edd Melton, at the First Baptist Church, Winnfield, with Rev.
Alwin Stokes, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating.  Burial was in
the Winnfield Cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were Bill Heard, John Mosley, Lee Grigsby, Wade Moore,
George Hightower, Lehman Sullivan.

Mrs. Melton died at a local hospital Friday.  She had been in failing health
about two months.

Mrs. Melton was born September 8, 1893, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
N. F. Howell, prominent residents of Winn Parish.  She was reared near
Winnfield and spent most of her life in this parish.  She was a member of a
Baptist Church in Shreveport.

Surviving besides her husband are three sons, Russell Richardson Stell,
Shreveport; Lt. Col. James Howell Stell, Raleigh, N. C.; Lt. Col. Glenn Aswell
Stell, Madison, Wisc.; one daughter, Mrs. Evan A. Thomas, Cotton Valley, La.

She also leaves six sisters, Mrs. Julia Sweat, Mrs. Iva Melton, and Mrs. Viola
Melton of Georgetown; Mrs. Alma Garland, Minden; Mrs. Grace Rosenblath,
Shreveport; and Mrs. Sadie Warren, Winnfield; and four brothers, Finley Howell
and DeLeon Howell, Winnfield, Hughie Howell, Magnolia, Ark., and DeSoto
Howell, Charleston, W. Va., and five grandchildren.