Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, May 29, 1978

Mrs. Lydia L. Crow

COUSHATTA -- Mrs. Lydia L. Crow, 63, of Coushatta,died Sunday morning in the Huckaby Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Hebron Baptist Church in Sikes with the Rev. William Gates officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home of Winnfield.

Survivors are two sons, John Gates of Jacksonville, Fla. and Lamar Gates of Shreveport; one daughter, Mrs. Maxine Dickerson of Coushatta; five sisters, Mrs. Eva Coats of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Willie Broom, Mrs. Minnie Hobson and Mrs. Vorine Hatten, all of Grayson and Mrs. Jessie Johnston of Bastrop; two brothers, Milton Crain of Columbia and Norris Crain of Denver, Colo.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.