Obituaries:  Elva Mae Riser, 1926, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  September 26, 1926 Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral of Miss Elva Mae Riser

The funeral services of Miss Elva Mae Riser, who was killed Tuesday, August
24, in an auto accident near Waskom, Texas, were held at the First Baptist
Church, Cedar Grove, Friday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock.  Rev. C. A. Voyles,
pastor, and Rev. A. I. Smith, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist Church,
of which she was a member, had charge of the services.  Interment was in
the Forest Park Cemetery, of Shreveport, during a downpour of rain.  Nurses
from the Tri-State Sanitarium, where she had been a student nurse, served
as pallbearers.

Miss Riser was the youngest daughter of Judge and Mrs. S. M. Riser, of
Cedar Grove, and a former resident of Winnfield, where she was born on May
15, 1907.

She had been a student at the Tri-State Sanitarium of Shreveport and was a
member of the Queensborough Baptist Church.

She was survived by her parents, Judge and Mrs. S. M. riser, and three
sisters, Mrs. Sam Kesling and mrs. J. E. O'Shaughnessy of Cedar Grove, and
Mrs. O. Hall of Shreveport.  Also, Mrs. H. M. Riser, her grandmother, and
the niece of H. C. Riser, of the Enterprise.