Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Thursday, January 14, 1999

Robert A. Corley Jr.

Services for Robert A. ``Bob'' Corley Jr. will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Emmanuel Baptist Church, Alexandria, with Drs. Udell Smith and Larry Taylor officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park, Pineville, under direction of Hixson Bros., Pineville.

Corley, 82, of Pineville died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1999, in Rapides Regional Medical Center.

He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church since 1926, a member of Pineville Kiwanis Club for 52 years and a 1937 graduate of Louisiana College. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and owner and operator of Corley Plumbing and Heating since 1945.

Surviviors include two sons, Robert A. Corley III and David Hunt Corley, both of Pineville; one daughter, Mary Nell Corley Berry of Deer Park, Texas; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 5-9 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. until noon Friday in the funeral home and from 1 p.m. until time of services in the church.

Memorials may be made to Enterprise Baptist Mission, c/o Emmanuel Baptist Church, 430 Jackson Street, Alexandria, La., 71301.