Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Thursday, January 16, 1975

Mrs. Katherine Bixler

Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Bixler, 49, of Winnsboro, were held Sunday, Jan. 12th in New Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Quitman Britt and Rev. Denver Smith officiated at 2 p.m.

Burial was in New Zion Cemetery. Mrs. Bixler died January 10th at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe.

She is survived by her husband, William C. (Bill) Bixler, Winnsboro, five daughters, Mrs. Peggy Parks, Winnsboro, Mrs. Janet B. Loper, Ft. Stockman, Tex., Mrs. Patricia Platko, Vicksburg, Miss., Mrs. Charlotte Machen, Newellton, and Miss Debbie Sue Bixler, Winnsboro; two sisters, Mrs. Victoria Smith, Winnsboro, Mrs. Thelma Livingston, Winnsboro, one half-sister, Mrs. Joyce Black, Virginia; two half brothers, Cecil Creel, Douglas Creel, Bossier City; her mother, Mrs. Alice Gibbs, Winnsboro; four grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were J. W. Thornton, Ray Carter, Harold Robinson, W. L. Nelson, Charles Smith, and Cass Busby.