Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman Progress (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, August 30, 1989

Joe Strange, Sr.

Services for Mr. Joe Strange, Sr., 91, of Columbia, La., will be at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 30, 1989, at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near Columbia, with Rev. Arlie Bratton, Rev. Mike Green, and Rev. Mike Burden officiating. Interment will be at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral [Home] of Columbia.

Mr. Strange died Monday, August 28, 1989, at Columbia Heights Nursing Home after an extended illness.

He was a native of Caldwell Parish, a retired farmer and carpenter. He was a veteran of World War I, and a deacon of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Laura Rawls Strange of Columbia; three sons, Mr. E.J. Strange of West Monroe, Mr. Lanny Eugene Strange of Pensacola, Fla., and Mr. Joe Strange, Jr. of Columbia; two daughters, Mrs. Laverne Kilby of Clifton, Virginia, and Mrs. Leone Lott of Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Lou Tullos of Star City, Ark.; 19 grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren.