Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Mollie East West
Services for Mrs. Mollie East West, age 82, Grayson, were at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 30, 1988 at the Chapel of Riser and Son Funeral Home with Dr. Wren Causey officiating. Burial was in Old Union Cemetery, west of Grayson under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home of Columbia. Mrs. West died Friday, January 29, 1988 at the Citizens Medical Center in Columbia following a lengthy illness.
Mrs. West was a native of Rapides Parish and was the widow of the late Buel West.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Maxine West, Carrollton, Texas; two sons, Travis West, Longview, Texas, and Charles West, Rayville; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Younger, West Monroe, and Mrs. Daisey Smoot, Pineville; six grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Donnie Harris, Ronald Carr, Steven May, Charles Smoot, Dennis Dunn and Kelton Bacon.
Wednesday, February 3, 1988