Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Sunday, January 2, 2000

William D. (Bill) Shows

JONESBORO, LA - Services for William D. (Bill) Shows, 80, of Jonesboro, will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, January 3, 2000 at the Full Gospel Christian Center. Officiating will be Rev. Billy Mac McBride. Burial will be in Gayla Traina Cemetery, Hwy 167 South.

Mr. Shows was born November 17, 1919 in Weston, LA and died Friday, December 31, 1999. He was a pulp mill foreman.

Survivors include his wife, Claudia Shows of Jonesboro, LA; son, Dale Shows of Jonesboro, LA; daughter, Wilda Smith and husband, Zack of Bossier City, LA; step-son, Richard Buchan and wife, Linda of Jonesboro, LA; step-daughter, Janis Thompson and husband, Jimmy of Dodson, LA; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be William Brosset, Wayne Tolbert, Carl Hopper, Mickael McGuire, Richard Morrow, Mike Ruddick, Clifton Shows and Robert Singleton.