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Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Odeal Banks

Funeral services for Odeal Banks, 83, of Winnsboro were held Sunday, November 20, 2005 in the chapel of Gill First National Funeral Home in Winnsboro with Rev. Doyle Adams and Rev. Paul Perry officiating. Interment followed in Coax Cemetery near Winnsboro.

Mrs. Banks was born to Henry and Maude Summers Martin in Richland Parish on March 28, 1922 and passed from this life Friday, November 17, 2005 in Franklin Medical Center in Winnsboro.

She was a member of Coax Baptist Church and was preceded in death by her parents, husband Herbert J. Banks, a brother Henry Martin, Jr. and a sister Ola Mae Wright.

She is survived by two children and spouses Sandra and Larry Jackson, and Sonny and Georgia Dean all of Winnsboro; four grandchildren Eric Jackson of Ruston, Jeremy Jackson of Winnsboro, Macky Dean and wife Amy of Ft. Necessity, and Sonni Wise of Baskin; and three great-grandchildren Stewart Wise, Brannon Dean, and Sean Dean.