Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Tuesday, June 17, 1980

HEARD, Jacob Roddie

Services for Jacob Roddie Heard, 81, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 17th in Pisgah Baptist Church in Manifest with Rev. K.G. Brooks, Frank Bass and Hoyt Gandy officiating. Burial will be in Heard Family Cemetery in Manifest.

Mr. Heard died Sunday, June 15, after a long illness. He was retired from the Louisiana Highway Department and was a member of Pisgah Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Florence Meyers Heard of Manifest; three sisters, Mrs. Edna Reitzell of Urania, Mrs. Gladys Richardson of Manifest and Mrs. Annee Randall of West Monroe; two brothers James Heard of West Monroe and Willard Heard of Manifest and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Randall, Steve Randall, George Heard Richardson, Greg Richardson, Kerry Heard and George Wroten.