Obituaries: Alma Katherine Sikes Thornton, 1958, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: March 6, 1958, Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Funeral Services Friday For Mrs. Alma Thornton Funeral services are to be held Friday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Alma Katherine Thornton, 74. She died Thursday in a Pineville hospital. Services will be at Friendship Baptist Church with Rev. Willie James officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Mrs. Thornton was born May 6, 1883 in the Gaars Mill Community. She is survived by three sons, James Thornton of Alexandria, Hilton Thornton of Houston, Texas, and Harold Thornton of Indiana; one daughter, Mrs. Simon C. Huffman of Alaska; 10 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, two brothers, J. W. Sikes of Dodson and I. W. Sikes of Houston, Texas; an done sister, Mrs. A. L. Thompson of Jena.