Obituaries: Ollie Newsom, 1944, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 30, 1944 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held For Miss Ollie Newsom Nov. 24

Miss Ollie Newsom, 90 years of age, member of a prominent Winn Parish family,
died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Cora Abrams, in Winnfield Thursday, Nov.
23, 1944.  Funeral services were conducted the following day at the Sikes
Baptist Church with interment in the Sikes Cemetery.  Rev. H. H. McBride,
pastor of the Winnfield Baptist Church, officiated.

Servining as pallbearers were Howard Sowers, Leo Sowers, Harold Brown, E. M.
Stringer, C. M. Newsom, and Chris Newsom.

Miss Newsom had been making her home with her niece in Winnfield since July,
1944, coming here from Monroe where she had resided six years.  She was born
at Flat Creek, Winn Parish, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Newsom, and lived the greater part of her life near Sikes.  She was a member
of the Shady Grove Baptist Church.

Surviving are two brothers, Dr. L. B. Newsom, formerly of Monroe, now of
Winnfield; and Dock Newsom of Crowville; three sisters, Mrs. Sibby Jarrell,
Columbia, La., Mrs. Nora Williams, Enterprise, La., and Mrs. Anna Sowers,
Winnfield.