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Martha Voree Chappell Walters - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post, April 6, 2007

TALLULAH - Martha Voree Chappell Walters died Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at St. Francis North Hospital 
in Monroe. She was 82.

Mrs. Walters was a native of Jackson Parish, La. She was reared in Transylvania and had been a Tallulah 
resident for a number of years. With her husband, she owned and operated Walters Furniture Store in 
Tallulah for 50 years.

She was a member of First Baptist Church of Tallulah.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leland Lamar Walters Sr.; her parents, Marshall Eugene Chappell 
and Thula Tullos Chappell; a brother, Billy Gene Chappell; and three sisters, Cloteal Chappell Ezell, 
Carolyn Kennedy and Sonya Elizabeth Chappell.

Survivors include a daughter, Beverly Ann Walters of Brandon; a son, Leland Lamar Walters Jr.; one brother, 
Norman Chappell of Minden, La.; four sisters, Betty McConnell of Ferriday, La., Sybol McGree of Houma, La., 
Wanda Swilley of Pass Christian and Jimmie Gail McPherson of West Monroe; four grandchildren; two 
stepgrandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Tallulah with the Rev. John W. Rushing 
officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 until 8 tonight at Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home in Tallulah.

Pallbearers will be Todd Walters, Lee Walters, Marshall Walters, Jerrell Sullivan, Hugh McConnell and Richie Johns.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Tallulah.