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Bessie C. Martin - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, November 19, 1986

Mrs. Bessie C. Martin, 85, died Tuesday at Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah after a short illness.

Services were at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Tallulah Methodist Church with the Rev. Ramon Warren officiating. 
Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah under direction of Crothers Funeral Home of Tallulah.

She was a native of Grand Cane and a resident of Tallulah for the past 55 years. She was a homemaker 
and a member of the Tallulah Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, James C. Martin and John E. Martin, both of Tallulah; two daughters, 
Virginia Holloway and Elsie Harris, both of Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Sallie Mae Johnston of Jackson, 
Miss.; 15 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were grandsons.