Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, May 2, 1948

MRS. M. F. JARRELL FUNERAL SUNDAY

EPPS, La., May 1. -- (Special) -- Mrs. Mattie Fletcher Jarrell, 74, died here Friday. Her funeral will be held in the Baptist Church in Columbia, La., Sunday at 3 p.m. Rev. Segler and Rev. Kitchenham [sic Kitchingham] will officiate. Interment will be in the Columbia cemetery.

Mrs. Jarrell is survived by her husband, Dr. Jarrell of Epps; three sons, Dr. M. F. Jarrell, Alexandria; T. H. Jarrell, Alexandria; Guthrie Jarrell, Epps; a brother, R. H. Fletcher, Winnfield; two sisters, Mrs. C. W. Smith, Ruston and Mrs. Joe Vickers; two grandsons, Dr. M. L. Jarrell, Alexandria and Guthrie Jarrell, Jr., Epps.

The body will remain in the family home in Epps until Sunday noon when it will be taken overland to Columbia for the funeral by the Catron-Gay Funeral Home of Oak Grove.