Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Friday, May 2, 1969

Mrs. Leona Keller Dies at Winnfield

(Special to The Town Talk)

JONESBORO, La. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Starks Keller, 78, of Jonesboro were held at 10 a.m. today in Jonesboro Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Gilbert Hockett officiating. Burial was in Jonesboro cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Mrs. Keller died at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in a Winnfield hospital.

Survivors are one son, O. E. Sparks [sic Starks] of Winnfield; six daughters, Mrs. Harold Bourg of Hodge, Mrs. Wilbur Rogers of Baton Rouge, Mrs. Joe Kees, Mrs. Carroll Robertson, Mrs. Nolan Smith and Mrs. Ansley Colvin Jr. of Jonesboro; one brother, J. M. Wheat of Roseland; one sister, Mrs. J. R. Wilson of Georgetown, six grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.