Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Monday, November 25, 1996

SINGLETARY, MYRTLE WALKER

A longtime resident of Baton Rouge, she died Friday, Nov. 22, 1996. She was 94, born April 10, 1902, near Oakdale. She retired from the Louisiana Bankers Association after 26 years as a member of the staff. Visiting was held at Welsh Funeral Home, 6700 Florida Blvd., 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Visiting at the funeral home 8:30 a.m. until religious services in the chapel at 2 p.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Jerry Ratcliff. Interment in Roselawn Memorial Park.

Survived by four children, Ernest Singletary, Dallas, retired Col. Albert Walker Singletary, Arlington, Va., Betty Jo Singletary, Caracas, Venezuela, and Charles Benjamin Singletary, Birmingham, Ala; a sister, Jewell Fuselier, Port Arthur, Texas; 15 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by husband, Albert H. Singletary, whom she married in 1925. She accompanied her husband on his assignments as a county agent in DeSoto and West Carroll parishes and as supervisor for the Sixth District of the Soil Conservation Service before the family settled in Baton Rouge in 1939. Two of her sons are graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and one son and her daughter are graduates of LSU. She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge and Euzelian Sunday School Class and a member of Business and Professional Women. The family suggests memorial donations be made to senior adult ministries at First Baptist Church.