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Flora Maxwell Potts - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal January 9, 1969

Funeral Services Held Saturday For Mrs. Flora Maxwell Potts

Funeral services for Mrs. Flora Maxwell Potts were hold at 11 a. m. Saturday in Grace Episcopal Church 
in Monroe. The Rev. W. Bradley Trimble, rector, officiated. Burial followed in the Old City Cemetery 
under the direction of Spears Funeral Home.

Mrs. Potts, 201 Breard Street, Monroe, died late Thursday in Glenwood Hospital following a long illness.

Mrs. Potts was a native of Madison Parish and she and her late husband, John J. Potts, moved to Monroe 
in 1902 where he was a member of the law firm of Hudson, Potts and Bernstein. Mrs. Potts was a member of 
the Fort Miro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Bayou DeSiard Country Club and 
various book clubs and music clubs. She helped established the Ouachita Parish library system, which is 
affiliated with the State Library system in Baton Rouge. She was an active member of the Grace Episcopal 
Church.

Mrs. Potts is survived by two grandsons, John Romain Peters, Jr. of New Orleans, and Benjamin Maxwell Peters 
of Monroe, one great grandson, John Romain Peters, III, of New Orleans, one half sister, Miss Alma Maxwell 
of Tallulah, and a number of nieces and nephews in Madison Parish.

Pallbearers were Henry Bernstein, Jr., Murray Hudson and George Miller of Monroe, her nephew's, Thomas Gilhula 
of Denham Springs, La., Andrew Yerger and Edward Yerger of Mound, Maxwell Yerger, William Yerger and Rufus Yerger 
of Tallulah.