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Mrs. H. W. (Edna Ewing) Ayres
SHREVEPORT, LA - Services for Mrs. H. W. (Edna Ewing) Ayres will be held at the
Rose-Neath Funeral home, Marshall Street Chapel on Friday, July 11, 1991, at
2:30 p.m. Dr. Benedict Galloway, retired associate pastor of Broadmoor United
Methodist Church and Rev. W. Scott Adams, associate pastor of Noel Memorial
United Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Park
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
Mrs. Ayres died at the age of 86 years after a
short illness on Wednesday, July 10, 1991, at Live Oak Retirement Center in
Shreveport, La.
Born September 13, 1904, in the Brookland Community in
Jackson Parish. She was the daughter of the late W. O. Ewing, Sr., of Chatham,
La.
Mrs. Ayres attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La., and
became a teacher. She taught school in Springhill, Quitman, Chatham, and
Jonesboro.
She married December 23, 1929 to Judge H. W. Ayres. They lived
25 years in Jonesboro, La., before moving to Shreveport.
Mrs. Ayres was a
member of the Noel Memorial United Methodist Church, Shreveport, La. Her 25
years in Jonesboro, she was a member of the Jonesboro Methodist Church and a
member of the W.S.C.S in which she held many official positions during her
tenure of service. In recognition of which, she was awarded a Life Membership
Pin.
She was a charter member of the Study Guild in Jonesboro, one of
four who organized it in 1939. She was a member of the Fact and Fiction Book
Club of North Highlands in Shreveport, La., and a member of Colonial Dames,
Seventeenth Century, Susan Constant Chapter.
Mrs. Ayres will be best
remembered by her devotion to church and community affairs and her faithfulness
and love to her home and friends.
Survivors are her son, James Ewing
Ayres, an attorney in Shreveport, La.; his wife, Susan Lloyd Ayres,; two
grandchildren, Laura (Ayres) LeBlanc of Baton Rouge, La., and Leland Harrison
Ayres, also of Baton Rouge; two great-grandchildren, James Michael LeBlanc and
Aaron Ashley LeBlanc of Baton Rouge, La.; one sister, Mrs. Morris S. Wright of
Shreveport, La.; two brothers, L. C. Ewing of Quitman, La., and W. O. Ewing,
Jr., of Livingston, Texas; a host of nieces and nephews and great nieces and
nephews.
Memorials may be made to Noel Memorial United Methodist Church
or Live Oak Retirement Center or to charity or donor's choice.
Edna Ewing Ayres was the daughter of William Oliver Ewing, Sr. and Caldonia Maudie (May) Ewing, and wife of Judge Harrison W. Ayres.
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