Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Tuesday, March 8, 1988

Marie Bernice Ward

Funeral services for Marie Bernice Ward, 71, of Winnsboro, were held at 2 p.m., Monday, March 7, in the Chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Winnsboro.

Interment was in Ogden Cemetery with the Rev. Marty Wright officiating.

A native and lifelong resident of Franklin Parish, she was a retired housewife and a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. She died on Sunday, March 6, 1988, following a lengthy illness.

Survivors include two daughters, Sherry Ward Spencer, Hamburg, Ark., and Patsy Jean Ward, Winnsboro; one brother, L. V. Wright, Springhill; one sister, Mae Cloice Smith, Natchez, Miss.; one granddaughter, Angela Matthews, Hamburg, Ark.

Pallbearers were James Glen Smith, Leo Edward Smith, Eugene Paola, Fay Cowart, Rodney Ramsey and Marlon Ramsey.