Extracted from The Daily Leader (Brookhaven, MS)
Tuesday, May 27, 1986

Mrs. Leona Halford

Services for Mrs. Leona Halford, 70, of Meadville will be held today at 2 p.m. at her home on route two with burial in Providence Baptist Church Cemetery. Parker's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Halford died May 25 in the Franklin Memorial Hospital.

She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Lorine Norris and Mrs. Winnie M. Montgomery, both of Meadville, and Mrs. Odie L. Middleton of Vidor, Texas; her sisters, Mrs. Alice Blackwell of Vicksburg, Mrs. Rhoda Halford of Natchez and Mrs. Eloise Pate of Beaumont, Texas; her brothers, William Halford of Vidalia, La., Wesley, Riley and Kirby Halford, all of Meadville, and Billy Ray Halford of McCall's Creek. She is also survived by four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.