Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, February 26, 1986

Roberta Holmes Poole

Funeral services for Mrs. Roberta Holmes Poole, age 69, of Grayson, were held Thursday, February 20th at the Rosefield Baptist Church with the Rev. Joel Johnson and Rev. Steve Roark officiating. Burial followed in the Spring Ridge Cemetery under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mrs. Poole died Tuesday, February 18th at Olla after a brief illness.

She was a member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church.

Survivors include one son, Mr. Lewis Allen Wilson, Olla; two daughters, Carol Poole, Olla, Mrs. Dorothy Childress, Bossier City; brother, Mr. Alfred Holmes, Tallulah; six sisters, Mrs. Eula Waggoner, Monroe, Mrs. Cleora Cassels, Rosefield, Mrs. Lola Gough, Reno, Nevada, Mrs. Rowena Adams, Tallulah, Mrs. Ira Cassels, Olla, Mrs. Eunice Douglas, Columbia and six grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Larry Tradewell, Doyle Poole, Cleveland Poole, Dean Poole and DeWayne Cassels, Dennis Cassels, Glen Adams, and J. L. Cassels.