Obituaries: Geneva Taylor Smith, 1952, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 20, 1952 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. Geneva Smith, 44

Funeral services for Mrs. Geneva Smith, 44, were held Saturday.  She died in a
local hospital Thursday night after an illness of about one year.

Last rites were in a Shreveport Baptist Church of which she was a member, with
burial in Centuries Memorial Cemetery, Shreveport.  Elder Willie Blackman
conducted the funeral.

Mrs. Smith was a native of Winnfield and had made her home in Shreveport for
the past four years.

Survivors are her husband, Judge L. Smith of Shreveport, two daughters, Mrs.
Carmal Wright and Miss Lois Ada Smith; two sons, A. U. Smith and Eugene Smith,
all of Shreveport; two brothers, James Aaron Taylor and Armon Paul Taylor,
both of Shreveport; four sisters, Mrs. Alaphair Wilkerson of Joyce, Mrs.Ethel
Kelly of Minden, Mrs. Bertha Tarver of Pineville, and Mrs. Willa Mae Jordan of
Winnfield, and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers included James Austin Jordan of Winnfield, Rudolph Welch of
Shreveport, and members of her church.