Obit of Mrs. Ida Roberts Milling, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the February 10, 1939 Winnfield News-American


Former Resident Dies at Home in New Orleans, February 1

Mrs. Ida Roberts Milling, wife of Robert E. Milling, former district attorney
of Winn Parish, died at her New Orleans home Wednesday of last week following
an illness of several months.

Mrs. Milling is the sister of Earl Roberts, prominent businessman of Colfax. 
She came to Winnfield with her husband, Mr. Milling, soon after their marriage
in Alabama, her home.  Later her parents moved to this parish and the families
acquired vast land holdings in and around Winnfield.

Funeral services were held Thursday morning from the New Orleans residence and
interment was in the Metairie Cemetery there.  She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Ida M. Chapman, Mrs. Odelle M. Christian, and Mrs. Dixie
Sherman, three sons, Robert E. Milling, Jr., and Thomas D. Milling, of New
Orleans, and one brother, Earl Roberts, Colfax, two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Stewart
and Mrs. Henry Bernstein of Monroe.

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