Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, November 7, 2003

LAVADA LEE

Gill First National Funeral Home
Winnsboro, LA

Funeral services for Lavada Lee, age 93, of Winnsboro, LA will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 10:00AM at the Lone Pine Baptist Church in Swampers, LA under the direction of Gill First National Funeral Home of Winnsboro, LA. Interment will be held at Harris Cemetery near Crowville, LA.

Mrs. Lee was born to the union of Louis C. and Lottie Strange Cox on Feb. 10, 1910 in Jena, LA and passed from this life Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003 at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, LA.

Mrs. Lee was a faithful and long time member of Lone Pine Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, N. G. Lee.

Survivors include four children: Uldeen Amaryalis Colvin of Houston, TX, Melba Jean Dean of Monroe, LA, Nellia Faye Holloway of Tallalulah, LA, and Nelson Gilmore Lee, Jr. of Winnsboro, LA; one sister, Okla O'Brien of Houston, TX, ten grandchildren and twenty six great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Mrs. Lee's grandsons and great- grandsons.

Visitation will be held Friday from 5:00PM until 8:00PM at Lone Pine Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to Lone Pine Baptist Church.