Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, September 1, 1976

Mrs. Ruth Holman

DOWNSVILLE -- Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Jane Holman, 70, of Downsville were held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Kilpatrick's Funeral Home of Farmerville with the Rev. Clyde Averitt and the Rev. Jim Ailor officiating.

Burial was in Mt. Nebo Cemetery near Downsville.

Mrs. Holman died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday in Glenwood Hospital in West Monroe after a long illness.

A native of Lincoln Parish, Mrs. Holman was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Corley Holman of Downsville; one daughter, Mrs. Lester Darden [sic Bearden] of Downsville; four sisters, Mrs. G. L. Malone of Shreveport, Mrs. Lois Weems of Serapta [sic Sarepta], Mrs. Irene Owen of Downsville and Mrs. Oliver Chapman of West Monroe; two brothers, Morris Robinson of West Monroe and Edward Robinson of Shreveport; and two granddaughters.

Pallbearers were Jimmy Ballard, Durwood McFarland, Willard Kelley, Stein Bearden, Robert B. Taylor and Charles Perry Jones.