Obituaries: Mrs. Annie Newsom Sowers, 1948, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Martha S. Jordan, P. O. Box 773, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 2, 1948 Winnfield News American

Funeral Conducted Monday for Aged Winn Resident

Mrs. Annie Sowers, 91, of Sikes, Dies Sunday Night

Funeral services were conducted here at 4:30 p.m. Monday for Mrs. Annie 
Newsom Sowers, 91 of Sikes, who died Sunday at 8 p.m. at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. C. J. Erskins of Sikes. Rites were conducted in the First 
Baptist Church by the Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor, and interment was in the 
Winnfield cemetery under the direction of the Southern Funeral Home.

The deceased was a native of Winn parish where she spent all of her life with 
the exception of six years during which she resided in Texas. She was the 
widow of the late N. C. Sowers, a farmer of the Shady Grove community near 
Sikes, and was a member of the Baptist Church.

She is survived by three sons, G. R. Sowers of West Monroe and J. N. Sowers 
and E. H. Sowers of Winnfield; two daughters, Mrs. C. J. Erskins and Mrs. 
Cora Abrams of Sikes; a brother H. L. Newsom of Delhi, a sister, Mrs. C. C. 
Jarrell of Columbia; 29 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and one 
great-great grandchild.