Excerpted from The Natchitoches Times (Natchitoches, LA)
Sunday, December 10, 1989

BASIL B. COBB

Funeral services for Basil B. Cobb were held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Furneral Home with Dr. J. Bradley Creed officiating. Burial was in Memory Lawn Cemetery.

Cobb, 83, of Natchitoches died Thursday morning in his residence.

He was a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and a retired owner of Cobb's Chevrolet dealership. He was a former member of Natchitoches Country Club and the Shreveport Gun Club.

Survivors include his wife Mrs. Elizabeth T. Cobb of Natchitoches; one son, Kenneth B. Cobb of Natchitoches; one daughter, Nona G. Cobb of Natchitoches; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Lynn Estes, Jonathan Evans, Rev. Ken Evans, Ben Carson Jr., D. H. Whittington and John Troquille.