Obituaries: Lela DeLoach O'Pry, 1955, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 20, 1955 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites For Mrs. Lela O'Pry Held Here Sunday

Funeral services for Mrs. Lela DeLoach O'Pry, 56, who died at her home in
Seattle, Wash., Monday, Jan. 10, 1955, from a cerebral hemorrhage, were held
at Hixson Funeral Home Sunday, Jan. 16, at 3 p.m.  The Rev. Luther Booth,
pastor of the First Methodist Church, Winnfield, officiated.  Burial was in
the family plot in the Winnfield Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Marvin and Evon Ryder, Floyd Smith and Baughn Jones,  cousins
of the deceased, of Alexandria; Paul Ward of Peoria, Ill., and Arthur Burns,
Winnfield.

The deceased was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. N. DeLoach.  She
came here with her parents when an infant and resided here until 1922, when
she went to Memphis where she spent many years before going to the west coast
to make her home.  She was a nurse in the Maynard Hospital, Seattle.  Her
sister, Mrs. Lula DeLoach Wall, of Chicago, flew to Seattle and accompanied
the remains to Winnfield.

Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Thelma McKenzie of Los Angeles; two brother,
Blackie DeLoach of Alexandria and Grisham DeLoach of Lake Charles; two
sisters, Mrs. Lula DeLoach Wall of Chicago and Mrs. Blanche Hawk of Maywood,
Ill.