Excerpted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, January 4, 1989

MRS. EDYTHE LOUISE MCKEITHEN (KIT) WALTERS

Private funeral services will be held for Mrs. Edythe Louise McKeithen Walters, 79, Monroe at Mulhearn Memorial Park Mausoleum Cemetery with Rev. Lowell C. Ashbrook officiating. Burial will be in Mulhearn Memorial Park Mausoleum under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home on Sterlington Rd., Monroe.

Mrs. Walters died Monday, January 2, 1989 at H. C. A. North Monroe Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Walters was born in Grayson, LA but had been a life-long resident of Monroe. She was a retired Registered Nurse and a member of Convantant Presbyterian Church and was active with the Council on Aging and the Music Community.

Survivors include daughter and son-in-law: Lloydelle Walters and Loren Keith Hopkins, Monroe; Grandson: 1st Lt. Harvy Birdsong III, West Berling [sic]; two great granddaughters: Melissa Lauren Birdsong and Holly Elizabeth Birdsong; two step grandchildren: Tracy Hopkins, Lubbock, TX; Teresa Noel of Woodward, OK; one brother, O. A. McKeithen, Eureka Spring, AR; three sisters: Theressa Head, Kiln, MS; Florence Bates, Boyce, LA; Joyce Carr, Port Lavaca, TX; number nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the Council on Aging to the attention of Mrs. Clara Abbott, 1209 Oliver Rd., P. O. Box 14363, Monroe, Louisiana 71207.