Extracted from The Richland Beacon-News (Rayville, LA)
Saturday, March 16, 1968

Rev. Leonard Arender

Funeral services for the Rev. Leonard Pickens Arender, 89, were held Sunday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Delhi with the Revs. J. P. Harvey, Billy Pierce and James Miller officiating.

Burial was in the Delhi Masonic Cemetery under direction of First National Funeral Home of Delhi.

Survivors include one son, E. B. Arender of Delhi; one step-son, Ralph Powell of Rayville; two step-daughters, Mrs. Nancy Cannon of Monroe, and Mrs. Josephine Snyder of Brunswick, N.J.; two sisters, Mrs. Albanie Ainsworth and Mrs. Lonnie Roberts, both of Raleigh, Miss.; two grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Rev. Arender was born in Raleigh, Miss., on October 13, 1878.

He was a retired Baptist minister and a farmer, having had a successful cotton crop last year. His first bale of cotton each year was often the first in all Richland Parish.

Rev. Arender preached for approximately fifty years, twenty-five of which were spent at New Light Baptist Church in Mangham.

A number of relatives from Poplarville, Miss., Hattiesburg, and Raleigh, Miss., attended the last rites for Rev. Arender.

Pallbearers were George B. Franklin, Lester Johnson, Manning Pilgreen, and Earl Patrick.