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Robert Lee Hancock - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal December 5, 1968

Robert Hancock Dies Sunday At Age 87

Robert Lee Hancock, died in Delta Haven Nursing Home here Sunday night after a long illness.

Funeral services were held at p. m. Tuesday at the Old Southern Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. 
Crawford Williams officiating. Burial was in Providence Memorial Gardens.

He was a native of Gloster, Miss., had lived in Tallulah for the past 20 years and was a member 
of the Montrose Baptist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Thomas C. Hancock of Tallulah and Hilton Hancock of Portsmouth, Va., 
a daughter Mrs. Connie Cooper of Los Angeles, California; two brothers, H. M. Hancock of McComb, Miss., 
and R. V. Hancock of Arcadia; two sisters, Mrs. Lonea Miller of Darnell and Mrs. Elizabeth Huff 
of Baton Rouge; nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were J. E. Adams, W. H. Harvey, A. L. Harvey, J. C. Byram, Carley Williamson 
and Gerald Collins.