Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, August 30, 1974

Rev. W. D. Grant

Funeral services for the Rev. W. D. Grant, 72, of Gilbert will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Turkey Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Hunt officiating.

Burial will follow in the Ogden Cemetery in Gilbert under the direction of Winnsboro First National Funeral Home.

He died at E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital Thursday following a brief illness.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Victoria Fussell Grant of Gilbert; eight daughters, Mrs. Betty Sue Slaughter of Atlanta, Tex., Mrs. Lela Mae Cupit of Kinner [sic Kenner], Mrs. Amy McDaniels and Mrs. Mildred Neal, both of Magnolia, Miss., Mrs. Loren Guidry and Mrs. Scarlett Reeves, both of Houma, Mrs. Dianne Reeves of Jonesville, and Mrs. Wanda Reeves of Jigger; three sons, Daniel Grant of Kodiak, Alaska and Shelby Grant and Jerry Grant, both of Gilbert; two sisters, Mrs. Moease Seditch of Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Avis Chapman of Columbia; and 41 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.