Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, February 19, 1975

Mrs. Ruby Russell

OLLA -- Funeral services for Mrs. Ruby Russell, 69, of Olla were to be held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia with the Rev. Ben Green officiating.

Burial was to be in Harris Chapel Cemetery in Olla.

Mrs. Russell died Monday in Hardtner Medical Center at Urania after a long illness.

Survivors include her husband, N. R. Russell of Olla; three daughters, Mrs. Lorean Mitchell of Baton Rouge, Mrs. Cecil Dale Causey of Kilgore, Tex. and Mrs. Pearlie Mauldin of Shreveport; four sisters, Mrs. Trudie Beck of West Monroe, Mrs. Shirley Tillman of Alexandria, Mrs. Ludie Strries [sic Starnes] and Mrs. Allie Ostten, both of Columbia; two brothers, Alvin Powell and Alfred Powell, both of Baton Rouge; 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Grandsons were to serve as pallbearers.