Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, March 23, 1960

Mrs. Fred Mecom Dies; Rites To Be Held In Columbia

Mrs. Minnie Brown Mecom, wife of the late Dr. Fred H. Mecom of Columbia, died Wednesday in a Monroe hospital.

Mrs. Mecom was a member of the Methodist church and has been a resident of Monroe for the past nine years. She formerly resided in Caldwell parish until the death of her husband.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body will lie in state at the Mulhearn Home until the funeral, which will be held at the First Methodist Church in Columbia. Interment will be in the Welcome Home Cemetery at Grayson, Louisiana.

Mrs. Mecom is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. C. Slagle, Hollywood, Florida, and Mrs. W. E. Godfrey, Monroe, and two brothers, Clyde R. Brown, Monroe, and Kenneth H. Brown, New Orleans.