Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Sunday, September 21, 2003

Erma G. Cooley

DERIDDER -- Funeral services for Erma G. Cooley, 72, will be at 2 p.m. today in Labby Memorial Chapel of DeRidder. The Revs. Hollis Roberts and Bruce Butts will officiate. Burial will be in Whitaker Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until time of services today in the funeral home.

Mrs. Cooley died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, in a local hospital.

She was a lifelong resident of DeRidder, a retired Beauregard Parish school bus driver and a member of Shiloh Baptist Church of Kipling Community.

She is survived by one son, J. Russell Cooley of DeRidder; one sister, Jimmie Lee Carlock of Westlake; and two grandchildren, Cassie Jo Cooley and James Casey Cooley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ewell Cooley, and one brother, Harold Dean Fletcher.