Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, March 11, 1981

Allen Ray Strange

Funeral services for Mr. Allen Ray Strange, age 47, of Columbia were held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Michael Green and Dr. W. M. Causey officiating. Burial followed in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery under the direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia. Mr. Strange died Thursday at the Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi after a long illness.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Strange, Sr., Columbia, two sisters, Mrs. Laverne Kilby, Clifton, Virginia, and Mrs. Lepme Lott, Muskotive, Iowa. Also, four brothers, Charles Strange, Enterprise, Edward Strange, West Monroe, Laney Strange, Pensacola, Florida, Joe Strange, Jr., Columbia and a host of nieces and nephews.