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Extracted from The Jena Times (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, February 11, 1998

FRANCIS, Lessie Lee

Lessie L. Francis, 85, of Jena, died at 9:10 p.m., Friday, February 6, 1998, in LaSalle Nursing Home of Jena.

She was a homemaker.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with Rev. Craig James officiating.

Burial followed in the Hair Cemetery near Jena under direction of Hixson Brothers, Inc., of Jena.

Survivors include two daughters, Orva Lynn Boyd of Jena and Cynthia Bryan of Vidallia; three step-daughters, Hazel Hopson of Jena, Joyce Baker of Pineville and Madis Voinche of Marksville; two step-sons, Edgar Francis of Jena and Charles Francis of Charleston, S.C.; four grandchildren and a number of step-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Sonny Smith, Billy Smith, Burl Clark, Johnny Hutchins, Doc Eubanks and Douglas Powell.