Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, May 8, 1964

Edwin H. Pepper

KELLY (Special) -- Funeral services for Edwin Hamilton Pepper, 61, who died in his home here Wednesday, will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Pine Hill Baptist Church near Olla.

The Rev. Doris Dearman will officiate. Burial will be at Olla Cemetery under direction of Kinner-Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Izena Pepper; four daughters, Mrs. Myrtice Taylor, Houston, Tex., Mrs. Rosa Lee Robinson, Crowville, Mrs. Lodie Mae Fruge, Rhode Island, Conn., and Mrs. Ethel Lee Crain of Kelly; four sisters, Mrs. Martha Ann Mays and Miss Nancy Pepper, both of Grayson, Mrs. Carrie Crain, Tullos, and Mrs. Florence Bennett, Willis, Calif.; four sons, Lavelle and Lloyd Pepper, both of Olla, Joseph Pepper, Winnsboro, and Elvis Pepper, Urania; 31 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.