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Jessie Smith - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal November 12, 1997

Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Smith, age 85, were held 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in the chapel of 
Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. John Rushing officiating. Burial followed in the Silver 
Cross Cemetery in Tallulah.

Mrs. Smith died Saturday, Nov. 8. 1997, in the Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Brookhaven, Miss., and had lived in Tallulah for 72 years. She co-owned and operated 
Ideal Flower Shop from 1946 until 1994. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Tallulah.

Survivors include one son, J. Carl Smith of Tallulah; one grandson, Jason Smith of Tallulah; one granddaughter, 
Ashley Smith of Tallulah: and two nieces.

Pallbearers were Phillip Crothers, Jim Folk, John Rogan, Marlin Tucker, M. C. Stone and Mike Rome.

Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home of Tallulah was in charge of arrangements