Extracted from unknown newspaper - probably the Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, August 2, 1961

Mother of Local Woman Dies; Services Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Francis Jane Rolen, 94, of Winnsboro, mother of Mrs. Bertha Bratton of Monroe, will be held Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at the New Hope Methodist Church near Sikes. Interment will be in the New Hope cemetery.

Mrs. Rolen died Tuesday in a Monroe hospital. She had been in ill health several weeks and had been hospitalized two weeks.

Prior to the funeral service, a prayer service will be held at 1 p.m. in the chapel of the First National funeral home in Winnsboro. Officiating for the services will be the Rev. Jimmy Hipp, pastor of the Boeuf River Baptist Church, near Winnsboro, assisted by the Rev. T. O. Airton.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Lee of Columbia, Mrs. Bratton of Monroe, Mrs. Belle Buchan of Jonesboro, and Mrs. Areth [sic Aretha] Warner of Winnsboro; four sons, Henry S. Rolen of Winnsboro, Robert Rolen of Seagraves, Tex. John Rolen of Many, and George Rolen of Morrow; and 47 grandchildren, 97 great-grandchildren, and 21 great-great grandchidlren.

Pallbearers will be Henry P. Rolen, Monroe Rolen, Bobby Joe Lee, H. L. Lee, Floyd Warner, and Elton Bratton.

Arrangements are under the direction of the First National funeral of Winnsboro.