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James Coates Lewis - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, October 16, 1975

Funeral services for James Coates Lewis of Tallulah were held at it --:-- -----ay in the chapel of 
Crothers Home with the Rev. Crawford Williams officiating. Burial was in Goshen Cemetery in Sanford, 
Miss., with Masonic rites.

Mr. Lewis died Saturday morning at his home after a long illness.

He was native of Collins, Miss. and a Tallulah resident for four years. He was a retired U.S. Army 
major with 39 years of service. He was a Shriner, a member of the masonic lodge, and a member of the 
Baptist Church. 

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ivie Naylor Lewis of Tallulah, one step-son, Dr. Lynn Naylor of 
Decatur, Ala.., one brother, Claude Lewis of Quartz Hill, Calif.; five grandchildren and a number of 
nieces and nephews. 

Honorary pallbearers were the Sanford, Miss. Masonic Lodge.