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Extracted from The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, March 14, 1979

Brother To Olla Woman Died Tuesday

Hansford Cockerham, 62, of Pineville died at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday in Rapides General Hospital.

Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at Sandy Lake Pentecostal Church near Jonesville.

Burial was in Taylor Chapel Cemetery in Summerville under direction of Rush Funeral Home of Pineville.

Mr. Cockerham was a retired state highway employee.

Survivors include his wife, Myrtle Cockerham of Pineville; 1 son Mike Cockerham of Foley, Alabama; 4 daughters, Elaine Ewing and Wanda Gail Foush, both of Pineville, Maxine Finley of Monterey and Jo Ann Lay of Foley, Alabama; 1 brother, Hershell Cockerham of Jonesville; 2 sisters, Mazie Franklin of Manifest and Gwendolyn Cruse of Olla; 10 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.