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Sam Joseph Scurria Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post, August 23, 2004

TALLULAH — Services for Sam Joseph Scurria Jr. were at 10 a.m. today at St. Edward 
Catholic Church in Tallulah with the Revs. Nikie Trahan and Sebastian Kallarackal 
officiating. Burial followed at Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of 
Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home. 

Mr. Scurria died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004, in West Monroe, La., as the result of a car 
accident. He was 42. 

Mr. Scurria was born in Vicksburg and lived in Calhoun, La. He was a graduate of Tallulah 
Academy and Northeast Louisiana University. He was an inspector for the Louisiana 
Department of Transportation and Development and was a hunter and fisherman.

Mr. Scurria was preceded in death by his brother, Joseph Michael Scurria, and his father, 
Sam Joseph Scurria Sr. 

Survivors include his mother, Marietta Lombardo Scurria of Tallulah; four brothers, Andrew 
T. Scurria of Monroe, Edward A. Scurria of Tallulah, Gerald F. Scurria of Springfield, Mo., 
and John T. Scurria of Prairieville, La.; two sisters, Nancy C. Scurria of Monroe and 
Angela Workman of Van Buren, Ark.; and his fianceé, Jackie King of Calhoun. 

Pallbearers were Steve Gustafson, Marlon Evans, John Eason, Carey Butler, Charlie Price 
and Charles M. Finalyson. 

Honorary pallbearers were co-workers from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and 
Development.

Memorials may be made to Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, P.O. Box 196, Libertyville, 
IL 60048 in memory of Sam J. Scurria Jr. or to St. Edward Catholic Church, P.O. Box 1308, 
Tallulah, LA 71282.