Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, September 4, 1953

Funeral Today For S. W. Diffey

Funeral services for S. W. Diffey, 85, of Haughton, who died Thursday in a local hospital after a brief illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Rose-Neath Funeral home chapel with the Rev. F. H. Harrison, pastor of Summer Grove Baptist church, and the Rev. W. M. Allen, pastor of Haughton Methodist church, in charge. Burial will be in Filmore cemetery.

Active pallbearers, grandsons of Mr. Diffey, include L. E. Diffey, Jr., Donald W. Diffey, Robert E. Musser, Henry B. Musser, Jr., B. L. Harper and Eugene Harper.

Survivors include two sons, L. S. Diffey of Bossier City and J. R. Diffey of Shreveport; three daughters, Mrs. H. B. Musser of Shreveport, Mrs. Frank Cook of Haughton and Miss Pearl Diffey of Springhill; 13 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.