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Willie E. Laird - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, April 5, 1989

Funeral services for Mr. Willie E. Laird, 74, were held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Crothers Funeral Home 
Chapel with Rev. John Rushing officiating. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Laird died Monday night at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Vicksburg after a lengthy illness.

He was a native of Rayville and a resident of Tallulah for the past 37 years. He was a retired 
foreman with the Madison Parish Police Jury and a member of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Irene Laird of Tallulah; two sons, Billy Wayne Laird and 
Dewey Daniel Laird, both of Tallulah; one daughter, Ellen Janice Herman of Tallulah; two brothers, 
Jesse Laird of Tallulah and Lovie Laird of Darnell; two sisters, Bertha Alexander of Rayville and 
Annie Lee of Vicksburg; 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Jack Taylor, John Laird, Jimmy Laird, Gene Laird, Gene Cox and Clint Johnson.