Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Tuesday, August 10, 1954

MRS. MAGGIE WARD

Mrs. Maggie Bishop Ward, 76, widow of C. O. Ward, died in a Laurel hospital at 5 p.m. Monday. Mrs. Ward had made her home with her sister-in-law, Mrs. S. L. Bishop, at 248 Dauphin St. for the past few years. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Quigley's Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. R. E. Nielsen, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Oaklawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Ward is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Virna Stuckey of Selma, Ala.; a son, A. L. Broome of West Monroe, La.; a sister, Mrs. Henry Wells of Richton; and a number of nieces and nephews.