Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Monday, February 26, 1968

Mrs. Nellie Maples

FERRIDAY (Special) -- Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Maples, 65, of Clayton, were at 3 p.m. today at Cash Bayou Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Hunt officiating.

Interment was in Huffman Cemetery near Manifest under direction of Young's Funeral Home of Ferriday.

Mrs. Maples died Saturday morning at Jena after a long illness.

Survivors include her husband, Bullard Maples, Clayton; three sons, Joseph C. Darden of Columbia, Irving B. Darden of Bossier City, and Richard L. Darden of Long Beach, Miss.; a daughter, Mrs. Allen Coates of Harrisonburg; 21 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.