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Ben M. Scruggs - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal October 7, 1992

Funeral services for Mr. Ben M. Scruggs, 75, were held at 10 a.m. Monday at Crothers-Glenwood Funeral 
Home Chapel with Rev. John Rushing officiating. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mt Scruggs died Saturday at the Madison Parish Hospital.

He was a native of Jonesville and had lived in Tallulah for 53 years. He was a retired service station 
owner, an Army veteran of World War II and a member of American Legion Post 100. He was a member of the 
First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife,Chrystine Scruggs of Tallulah; three sons, Bobby L. Scruggs of Shreveport, 
Ronnie W Scruggs of Boulder, Colo. and Stephen M. Scruggs of Longmont, Colo.; one brother, George Scruggs Sr. 
of Clayton; three sisters, Orlean Chevallier of Winnsboro, Bertha Watkins of Natchez, Miss. and Gladys Howard 
of Ferriday; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were Bobby Reynolds, Gene Watkins, Granville Harris, Lamar Walters,Charles Roberson 
and Todd Scruggs.