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Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Sunday, February 19, 1984

Bertha Mae Newsom

Service for Mrs. Bertha Mae Newsom, 82, of Olla, LA., will be held Sunday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Southern Funeral Home Chapel, in Winnfield. The Rev. Doris Dearman and Laymon LaCour will officiate. Burial will be in the Sikes Cemetery.

Mrs. Newsom, a native of Sikes, died at 10:15 p.m., Friday night in the Guest House Nursing Home in Shreveport. She was a homemaker and member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church near Sikes.

She is survived by one son, Laurie J. Newsom of Sikes; one daughter, Mrs. Vauna Dean Richardson of Shreveport, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Friends may call after 9:00 a.m. today until service time at the funeral home.