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Johnnie Douglas Beard Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post, April 30, 2004

TALLULAH — Services for Johnnie Douglas Beard Jr. will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at 
Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. Frank Shields officiating. Burial will 
follow at Midway Cemetery near Delhi. 

Visitation will be all day Saturday until the service at the funeral home. 

Mr. Beard died Wednesday, April 28, 2004, at his home. He was 59. 

A resident of Tallulah, he was a diesel and farm mechanic and a member of the Royal 
Order of Moose. 

Survivors include his wife, Danielle Matthews Beard of Tallulah; a son, Johnnie Douglas 
Beard III of Tallulah; two daughters, Amanda Sue Meadows of Vicksburg and Jeannie Bohn 
of Pennsylvania; his mother, Frances Beard of Vicksburg; three brothers, the Rev. Frank 
Shields of Downsville, La., and Elmer Sidney Preston and Delmer Bell Preston, both of 
Jacksonville, Fla.; and four grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be Johnnie D. Beard III, Kinney Heard, Jonathan Meadows, Nathaniel 
Matthews, Sam Whitaker and Johnnie Matthews. 

Honorary pallbearers will be Ernie Sheppard and Buddy Heard.