Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, April 18, 1989

Mrs. Cora C. Smith

SHREVEPORT - Services for Mrs. Cora C. Smith, 84, will be held at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, 1989 at the Wellman Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Floyd Davis, Jr, pastor of Caddo Heights Baptist Church will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Gary Melanson, minister of music at Sunset Acres Baptist Church. Interment will follow at 4:30 p.m. at the Florien Cemetery, officiated by the Rev. C. V. Chance.

Mrs. Smith passed away Sunday, April 16, 1989 following a lengthy illness. She was a Shreveport resident for 25 years and a member of the Caddo Heights Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons, James E. Smith of Shreveport and Jerry D. Smith of New Iberia, La.; one daughter, Ruby S. Malone of Shreveport; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; two brothers, Cleveland Chance and Dan S. Chance both of Florien, La.; a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be James Jordan, Harlan Estes, Royce Allen, Alton Johnson, J.W. Mericle, and Homer Gardner.