Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
R. BENTON COOLEY
DeRIDDER -Spl. -- Funeral services for R. Benton Cooley, 70, of Longville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Hixson funeral home chapel in DeRidder.
Services will be conducted by Rev. Lonnie Johnson and Rev. Lavelle Cooley. Burial will be in Beauregard cemetery in DeRidder.
Mr. Cooley died at 11:25 p.m. Thursday in a Lake Charles hospital.
He was a member of the Pentecostal church and a native of Beauregard parish.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Josephine Cooley of Longville; two brothers, John Cooley of DeQuincy and S. A. Cooley of Longville; three sisters, Mrs. E. H. Haven and Mrs. J. W. Collins, both of DeQuincy and Mrs. B. A. Sellers of Longville.
Saturday, October 5, 1963