Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Friday, May 7, 1965

MRS. BERTHA COOLEY

DERIDDER (Spl.) -- Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Mandy Cooley, 60, of DeRidder will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Friendship Baptist Church.

The Rev. C. N. Greene will officiate. Burial will be in Whitaker Cemetery with Beauregard Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Cooley died at 5 p.m. Wednesday in a DeRidder hospital.

She is survived by her stepmother, Mrs. Nettie Ross of DeRidder; three sons, Paul, Jimmie A. and Marvin Cooley, all of DeRidder, and two daughters, Mrs. Agnes Wyatt of DeRidder and Mrs. Mary R. Edwards of Alexandria.

Also one sister, Mrs. Allie Fair Cooley, and one half-sister, Mrs. Eloise Brown, both of DeRidder; 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.