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Mittie Key Speed - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, October 6, 1977

Funeral services for Mrs. Mittie Key Speed, 85, of Tallulah, were held Wednesday at Tallulah Methodist 
Church with the Rev. Xxxx Caraway officiating. Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction 
of Crothers Funeral Home of Tallulah. 

Mrs. Speed died Monday at a retirement home in Shreveport after a long Illness.

She was a retired teacher of 32 years with the Madison Parish school system. Mrs. Speed was the first 
home economics teacher at Tallulah High School, but she spent most of her years in the 5th grade at 
Tallulah Elementary School.

Mrs. Speed was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Louisiana Retired Teachers Association, 
United Women of the Methodist Church and the First United Methodist Church of Tallulah.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. E. Forrest King of Shreveport; four grandchildren and four 
great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Harry Placke, Edgar Lancaster Jr., Donald B. Lancaster, Bill Colligan, Robert Speed, 
Louis Nettles, Myron Bailey and C. L. Richardson.

The family requests any planned memorials be made to the Methodist Church or the Madison Parish Hospital.