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Extracted from The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, May 23, 1990

Myrtis Pepper Woodward

Myrtis Pepper Woodward, 68, of Pasadena, Texas, died May 3, 1990, at Bayshore Hospital in Pasadena after a long illness.

She was a native of Olla and member of the First Baptist Church of Olla.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the chapel of Riser and Son Funeral Home in Columbia with Rev. Clarence Gruver, officiating.

Interment followed in Olla Cemetery under direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Survivors include her husband, Marshall Woodward of Pasadena; five sons, Travis Taylor and John Taylor, both of Deer Park, Texas; Laverl Taylor and Ronnie Taylor, both of Pasadena and Rick Taylor of Olla; two daughters, Doris Cook of Pasadena and Mary Lou Coates of Columbia; a step-daughter, Jimmie Ruth Stearns of Phoenix, Arizona; three brothers, Joe Pepper of Winnsboro, Lloyd Pepper of Santa Rose, Calif. and Elvis Pepper of West Monro; two sisters, Rosa Lee Robinson of Crowville and Ethel Crain of Grayson; 19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Grandsons served as pallbearers.