Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, November 20, 1996

Marion Lorene Mitchell

Funeral services for Mrs. Marion Lorene Mitchell, age 71, of Columbia were held at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, November 10, 1996 from the Columbia Chapel of Riser & Son Funeral Home with Rev. Jim Richmond and Rev. Mike Green officiating. Interment followed in Columbia Hill Cemetery in Columbia.

Mrs. Mitchell, a homemaker, died Thursday, November 7, 1996 at the Franklin Parish Medical Center in Winnsboro following an extended illness.

Marion Lorene Mitchell was born on September 5, 1925 in Franklin Parish to the union of Marvin and Ruby Powell Herlong. She was an active member of the Bellview Baptist Church near Columbia.

Survivors include: her husband, Jessie Mitchell of Columbia; three sons, Joe Mitchell and Gary Mitchell, both of Baton Rouge, and Jessie R. Mitchell of Clarks; one daughter, Mrs. Katheryn Peoples of Columbia; two sisters, Mrs. Cecil Dale Causey of Kilgore, Texas, and Pearlie Maulden of Shreveport; 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.