Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, November 30, 1977

Mrs. Lawrence

Funeral services for Mrs. Bertie Leona Lawrence, 61, of 104 S. Riverbend, West Monroe, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Mulhearn's Funeral Home chapel of West Monroe, with the Rev. Edward Smith officiating.

Mrs. Lawrence died Tuesday at Glenwood Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery in Calhoun.

Mrs. Lawrence was a native of Sikes. She was a member of Hurricane Grove Baptist Church in Sikes. She was a retired receptionist for a local physician.

Survivors include two sons, Gerald Lawrence and Elbert Lawrence, both of West Monroe; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Redden of West Monroe, and Mrs. Carrie Hill of Monroe; one brother, Horace McCarthy [sic McCarty] of Shreveport; five grandchildren.