Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Monday, December 23, 1963

Edwin A. Ford

SIKES (Special) -- TIme for services is pending for Edwin Allen Ford, 63, of Sikes, who died Sunday morning in a Winnfield hospital. He had been ill about two weeks.

He was the father of Miss Shirley Ford of Monroe.

Funeral services will be at Beech Creek Baptist Church near Olla with the Rev. Hugh Thompson and the Rev. Willie Broadway officiating.

Burial will be at Beech Creek cemetery under direction of Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro. The body will be at the funeral home until time for the funeral.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Sikes; four sons, Aubrey Ford, Olla, La Marr Ford, Bossier City, Richard Ford, Morgan City, and Robert Ford, stationed with the Army at Lawton, Okla.; two other daughters, Mrs. Minnie Snead, Amarillo, Tex., and Mrs. Marie Sheelar, Alaska; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Jones, Coushatta, Mrs. Myrtle Fletcher, Bunkie, and Mrs. Maude Vicken [sic Vickers], Urania.