Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Tuesday, May 23, 1961

MRS. AGNES TATUM

WEST LAKE (Spl.) -- Mrs. Agnes Tatum, 25, of West Lake, died at 1:25 a.m. today in a Lake Charles hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Oak Grove. Burial will be in Red Wing cemetery at Oak Grove. Hixson's funeral home was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Tatum was a native of Oak Grove and had lived in Lake Charles for three years.

Survivors are her husband, Benny Tatum; one daughter, Mary Melissa and one son, Benny, all of West Lake; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Savell of Oak Grove; three sisters, Mrs. Richard Pope of Oak Grove, Mrs. Ralph Reynolds of Monroe and Mrs. A. C. Johnson of Lake Charles; four brothers, Charles Savell of Lake Charles, J. O. Savell, U.S. Army, John Savell of Calhoun and Preston Savell of Monroe.