Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Thursday, July 25, 1940

Naomi Inez Busby Dies Wednesday In Orleans Hospital

Miss Naomi Inez Busby, formerly of Crowville but more recently of Lafayette, died in a New Orleans hospital last Wednesday as a result of a short illness. Miss Busby, who is survived by relatives here and at Crowville, was only 24 at the time of her death last week.

She was a member of the First Baptist church of Crowville, as well as a member of Brilliant Star Chapter No. 124. Miss Busby was a graduate nurse of the St. Francis sanitarium class of 1936. For the past two years she has been employed as supervisor of a sanitarium in Lafayette.

Services for the deceased were held in the Crowville Baptist Church Thursday at 5 p.m. Rev. C. S. Wroten of the Crowville church was the officiating minister, and was assisted in the last rites by Rev. Dana Terry and Rev. S. C. Rushing.

Miss Busby was buried in the Crowville Masonic cemetery.

Survivors are her mother, Mrs. Mary Busby, Crowville; four sisters, Mrs. Jake Netherland and Mrs. Ezra Walters of Crowville, Mrs. Rufus Ezelle of Newellton and Mrs. Johnnie Walters of Winnsboro; and one brother, Otto Busby, of Crowville.

Serving as pallbearers were J. H. Netherland, C. N. Netherland, O'Neal Neatherland, Luther and Quitman Walters and Floyd Pylant.

Services were in charge of the Winnsboro Funeral Home.