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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, November 20, 1952

Last Rites Held Saturday For Mrs. Geneva Smith, 44

Funeral services for Mrs. Geneva Smith, 44, were held Saturday. She died in a local hospital Thursday night after an illness of about one year.

Last rites were in a Shreveport Baptist Church of which she was a member, with burial in Centuries Memorial Cemetery, Shreveport. Elder Willie Blackman conducted the funeral.

Mrs. Smith was a native of Winnfield and had made her home in Shreveport for the past four years.

Survivors are her husband, Judge L. Smith of Shreveport, two daughters, Mrs. Carmal [sic Carmel] Wright and Miss Lois Ada Smith; two sons, A. U. Smith and Eugene Smith, all of Shreveport; two brothers, James Aaron Taylor and Armon Paul Taylor, both of Shreveport; four sisters, Mrs. Alaphair Wilkerson of Joyce, Mrs. Ethel Kelly of Minden, Mrs. Bertha Tarver of Pineville, and Mrs. Willa [sic Willie] Mae Jordan of Winnfield, and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers included James Austin Jordan of Winnfield, Rudolph Welch of Shreveport, and members of her church.