Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Monday, July 16, 1973

Luther Campbell Jr.

(Special to the Town Talk)

FERRIDAY, La. -- Funeral services for Luther Campbell Jr., 41, of Ferriday were held at 10 a.m. today in the Mimosa Pentacostal [sic Pentecostal] Church here with the Rev. Ed Weatherly officiating. Burial was in Providence cemetery at Roxie, Miss., under the direction of Young's Funeral Home of Ferriday.

Campbell died Saturday in Concordia Parish Hospital. He was a resident of Ferriday for 12 years.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Annie Mae Campbell of Gilbert; one son, Melvin Campbell of Ferriday; one daughter, Mrs. Janice Byrd of Gilbert; five brothers, James Campbell and Jessie Campbell both of Ferriday, Marion Campbell and Leslie Campbell both of Natchez, Miss., and Wayne Campbell of Fayette, Miss.; four sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Pell of Port Gibson, Miss.; Mrs. Rena Thorpe of Fayette, Miss., Mrs. Agnes Tingle of Grayson, and Miss Geraldine Campbell of Natchez, Miss.