Extracted from The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA)
Wednesday, December 29, 1971

Mrs. Lee Byrd Rites Thursday At Lone Pine BC

Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Lone Pine Baptist Church for Mrs. Lee Byrd, 67, the former Alice Izora Emerson [sic Emmons] of St. Landry, who died at the Bayou Vista Nursing Home in Bunkie. Burial was in the Griffith Hill Cemetery under the direction of Ardoin's Funeral Home.

Mrs. Byrd is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Ilfred Leger of Houston; five brothers, Clarence Emerson [sic Emmons] of Clearwater, Willie and Daniel Emerson [sic Emmons] of West Monroe, Wallace Emerson [sic Emmons] of Centerville and Home Emerson [sic Homer Emmons] of Lone Pine.

Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Leroy Carpenter of Lone Pine and Mrs. Julius Stewart of Forest Hill; 29 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.