Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, May 31, 2002

MRS. LOUISE GRISHAM KELLOGG LEIGH

Mulhearn Funeral Home
Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA

Services for Mrs. Louise Grisham Kellogg Leigh, 100, of Monroe, LA will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, June 1, 2002 at the Grace Episcopal Church in Monroe, LA with the Reverend David Egbert officiating. Burial will follow at Riverview Cemetery, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA.

Mrs. Leigh died Tuesday, May 28, 2002. She was born November 14, 1901 in Winnfield, LA. She was the daughter of Daisy Emerson Grisham and Orin Medicus Grisham, and the sister of Marion Grisham Lewis. Mrs. Leigh was a resident of Monroe, LA for 85 years.

Her husbands preceded her in death, Mr. Robert Kellogg, the father of her two daughters, and Mr. Thomas Watkins Leigh, whom she married in 1942.

Mrs. Leigh graduated from Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, TN. She was a member of the Grace Episcopal Church, where she served in the Daughters of the King and the Altar Guild. Mrs. Leigh was a founding member of the Junior Charity League. She also held memberships in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the First Families of Mississippi, and the Colonial Dames of America, where she was named to the National Roll of Honor.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Stuart Kellogg, and Rhoda Kellogg Normann [sic Norman], both of San Francisco, CA her nine grandchildren, Richard Faust, Rhoda Faust, Consuelo Faust-Anderson, Robert Faust, Susan Pansano, David Normann, Louise Fruge, Robert Normann, and Mary Stuart Normann her 14 great grandchildren and her niece and nephew, June Lewis McHenry and Orin Grisham Lewis.

Special thanks to her friends, Gloria T. Bennett, Margaret Clark, Dorothy Washington, and Brenda Thompson.

Pallbearers will be Ed Theus, Lewis McHenry, Robert Faust, Robert Taylor, Thomas Zentner, Malcolm Maddox, James Moore, Earl Pansano, Layton Long, Robert Normann, David Normann, James Fruge, and Thornton Anderson.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Robert Curry, Dr. Ran Phillips, Richard Kellogg, Grisham Lewis, Dr. Armand McHenry, Charles Hecht, and David Kellogg.