Obituaries:  Mrs. Lena Austin (Mrs. Ovey) Trahan, 1965, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  November 4, 1965 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American

Last Rites For Mrs. Ovey Trahan Held Friday

Funeral services for Mrs. Lena Austin Trahan, 69, were held at 2 p.m.
Friday in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Winnfield with the
Rev. W. R. Gage, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating.

Burial was in the Winnfield Cemetery.

Mrs. Trahan, wife of Ovey Trahan, chairman of the board of directors of the
First Federal Savings and Loan of Winnfield, died in a Winnfield hospital
at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 28, 1965, after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Trahan was a native of Georgia and lived most of her life in
Winnfield.  She was a ember of the First Presbyterian Church of Winnfield.

Survivors are her husband, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Hanstings, of
Alexandria, and two nieces, Mrs. R. W. McDanile of Alexandria, and Mrs. Leo
Vesehio of Pennsylvania.

Pallbearers were A. B. White, Carrol Hatcher, C. B. Moss, Benny Smith,
James Machen, Earl Denning, Harper Terrill, and Frank Shaw.