Obituaries: Fannie Capps Skains, 1966, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 3, 1966 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Funeral Rites For Mrs. Fannie Skains Held Monday

Mrs. Fannie Skains, 59, died at 5:20 a.m. Sunday, January 30, 1966 in a
Winnfield hospital after a long illness.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday in Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of
Winnfield with the Rev. W. R. Gage officiating.  Burial was in Zion Cemetery
near Georgetown.

Mrs. Skains, a practical nurse, was a native of Winn Parish and a member of
the First Presbyterian Church of Winnfield.

Survivors are a daughter, Sarah S. Blanchard of Jonesboro; one stepdaughter,
Mrs. Nettie Pardons of Winnfield; four stepsons, R. D. Skains of Winnfield,
James Skains of Joyce, O. B. Skains of Montgomery, and L. E. Skains of Monroe;
four brothers, Oran Capps of Tullos and Aaron, Arthur, and J. W. Capps of
Georgetown; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel C. Peebles of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs.
Flora C. Carnahan of Georgetown, and 15 grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Ronald Skains, Jimmy Skains, Wayne Skains, Lamar Skains, B.
G. Skains, and Billy Skains.