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Johnie Thames - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, December 30, 1986

Johnie Thames, 70, died Saturday at Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi after a long illness.

Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday at Crothers Funeral Home chapel in Tallulah with the Revs. Allen Peebles 
and Charles Gaston officiating. Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah.

He was a native of Franklin Parish, a resident of Madison Parish for 43 years, a farmer and a member 
of Warsaw Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lois Smith Thames of Tallulah; two sons, Robert Thames and Richard Thames, 
both of Tallulah; three daughters, Barbara Averett of Tallulah, Maxine White of Southhaven, Miss., and 
O1a Noisey of Booneville, Mo.; one brother, Travis Thames of Baskin; one sister, Edna Prewitt of Monroe; 
10 grand-children; and four great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Frith, Ray Chilton, Sharron Chapman, Gary Lynn Killingsworth, Herman Welch 
and Cecil Kelly.