Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, December 11, 1991

Myrtle Duke

Services for Mrs. Myrtle Prince Duke, 86, Columbia, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, December 9, 1991 at Riser and Son Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Joe Solomon officiating. Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson under direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home Inc. of Columbia.

Mrs. Duke died Saturday, December 7, at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe after an extended illness.

Mrs. Duke was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Earl Duke.

Survivors include a son, Mr. O.J. Baldwin of Monroe; daughters, Mrs. Corine Baldwin Reaves of Sacramento, California, and Mrs. Earlene Duke La Font of Franklin, Louisiana; sister, Mrs. Gertrude Tarver of Eugene, Oregon; 10 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Uriah Youngblood, Billy Ellis, John E. Baldwin, Philip Baldwin, Paul D. Baldwin and Earl D. La Font.