Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Monday, March 4, 1968

Mrs. Retha Patton

COLUMBIA (Special) -- Funeral services for Mrs. Retha M. Patton, 54, of Columbia, were at 10 a.m. today in the chapel of Riser and Son Funeral Home of Columbia with the Rev. Doris Dearman officiating.

Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson.

Mrs. Patton died Saturday in St. Francis Hospital in Monroe after a long illness.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Laura McGuire of Columbia, and Mrs. Betty Gardner of Naples, Italy; three brothers, Woodrow Montgomery of LaPuente, Calif., James Montgomery of Durate, Calif., and Fayette Montgomery of West Covina, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Vetress Klunk of St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. Trudy Baldwin of Sonora, Calif.; and three grandchildren.