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