Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, March 18, 1961

Area Mayor's Mother-In-Law Dies; Rites Set

FERRIDAY (Special) -- Mrs. Edna R. Prichard, 75, died Friday at 11:25 a.m. at the home of her son-in-law, Mayor Louis Preis Sr. in Waterproof.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Waterproof Methodist church with Rev. S. E. Stirrett officiating. Burial will follow in the Harrisonburg cemetery under the direction of Foster's Funeral Home of Natchez, Miss.

A resident of Waterproof for the past 12 years, Mrs. Prichard, formerly of Harrisonburg, was the widow of the late Dr. H. W. A. Prichard.

Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Louis Pr[e]is Sr., Waterproof; Mrs. Jack L. Crigler, St. Joseph, and Ms. Elizabeth Knight of Winnsboro; six grandchildren and 13 great- grandchildren.