Extracted from the Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Sunday, September 26, 1999

Clara O. Mercer

WINNFIELD - Services for Clara O. Mercer will be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern with the Rev. Rayford Higgs and Dr. Calvin Phelps officiating. Burial will be in Crossroads Cemetery.

Mrs. Mercer, 86, of Winnfield died Friday, Sept. 24, 1999, in Winn Parish Medical Center.

She was a member of Crossroads Baptist Church and a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband, Earlie Mercer of Winnfield; two sons, Roy Mercer of Joyce and Julius Mercer of Winnfield; three brothers, Hoyl Lucas of Alexandria, Louis Lucas of Winn Parish and Clomer Lucas of Shreveport; one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Keith Guillotte, William Jones, Chester Smith, Brian McDow, Jim Southall and Dewayne Sanders.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. until time of services today in the funeral home.