Excerpted from The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, March 11, 1966

Lester Manly

COLUMBIA (Special) -- Funeral services for Lester Manly, 59, of Columbia will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Riser and Son Funeral Home, with the Rev. R. H. Bond officiating, and burial following in Columbia cemetery.

Mr. Manly died Thursday at Caldwell Hospital after a short illness.

Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Simons, Dumas, Ark.; Mrs. Patricia Cosby, Monroe; three sons, David, Jimmy and Timmy Manly, Columbia; three brothers, Wilber and John Manly, Columbia; Robert Manly, Eureka, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Jewel Ledbetter, Columbia; and a grandchild.

Pallbearers are Hugh Roberts, Floyd Hodges, Lance Arthurs, Tom Watts, Herman Byrd and Hightower Desidere.