Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Thursday, October 20, 1977

Lawrence Poole

JONESBORO -- Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. today in the Sweetwater Baptist Church at Quitman for Lawrence Earl Poole, 74, of Clay with the Rev. C. W. Aswell and the Rev. Bill Kinman officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

Mr. Poole died Wednesday morning in Willis-Knighten Hospital at Shreveport after a brief illness.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ardath Poole of Clay; two sons, John W. Poole of Arcadia and David Ray Poole of Doyline; two brothers, Chesley Poole of Clay and Elisha Martin Poole of Mansfield; four sisters, Mrs. Louise Aldridge and Mrs. Mary Pikin, both of Shreveport, Mrs. Margrett Holmes of Jasper, Tex. and Mrs. Roxie Chanell of North Little Rock, Ark.; and three grandchildren.