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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Hannah Cockerham Sanders

Services for Hannah Cockerham Sanders will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 22, 2003 in the Union Baptist Church in Joyce, LA with Rev. Rayford Higgs officiating. Burial will [be] following in the Union Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home, Winnfield, LA.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. Wednesday until services on Thursday in the church.

Mrs. Sanders, age 73 of Joyce, LA, beloved mother went home to be with our Lord on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 in the Rapides Regional Medical Center. She was born in Dodson, LA and was the daughter of John and Kozzie Box Cockerham. She was a retired nursing assistant at the Autumn Leaves Nursing Home and a homemaker. She dearly loved her children, grandchildren, family and friends. She was a member of the Union Baptist Church, Joyce, LA.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Cody [sic Coy] Sanders, a grandson, Jay Lee Sanders, five sisters and two brothers.

Survivors are one son, John Mack Sanders, two daughters, Edith Lang and Josie Desadier and husband Jerry, all of Joyce, LA; two grandsons, Jarod Mack Sanders of Dodson, LA, James Shannon Dryden from Joyce, LA; one granddaughter, Shelley Danielle Desadier from Joyce, LA and one great granddaughter, Madison Paige Collins; several nieces and nephews; and one sister, Nancy Harkins of Joyce, LA.

Pallbearer[s] will be: James H. Johns, Lonnie Harkins, Burt Cockerham, Lloyd Vines, Gerald Dauzat and Randy Melton.