Obituary of DOCIA MCVEY TULLOS, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: September 18, 1958

Headline:  Final Rites for Mrs. Louis Tullos Are Held Monday

Mrs. Louis Tullos, 78, of Tullos, who died Saturday night at the Baptist 
Hospital in Alexandria following a long illness, was buried Monday afternoon, 
following services held at the First Baptist Church of Tullos at 2:30 o'clock.

Mrs. Tullos, the former Docia McVey, was a native of Alabama but had lived in 
Tullos since shortly after her marriage to Mr. Tullos almost 60 years ago.  
She had been in poor health for a number of years and had been in the 
hospital for some five weeks at the time of her death.

The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. E. O. Brackman, the Rev. E. 
T. Carruth and the Rev. D. Dearmon.  Interment followed in New Union Baptist 
Church Cemetery near Tullos under the direction of Kinner and Stevens Home 
for Funerals of Jena.

Mrs. Tullos is survived by her husband, Louis Tullos, who also is in poor 
health; tow daughters, Mrs. Janice Cornish of Lafayette and Mrs. Jessie 
Sjorberg of Corpus Christi, Texas; six sons, Albert of Ball, Charles of 
Tullos, Ernest of San Antonio, Ed of Winnfield, Travis of Olla and Lacy of 
Cotton Valley; four brothers, Algan McVey of Tullos, Noah and Charlie McVey, 
both of Oak Grove and Clayton of Delhi; 14 grandchildren and 11 
great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers for the final rites were Curtis Lees, R. T. Cornish, Leroy 
Tullos, J. R. Tullos, Billy Fife and Earl Glen Tullos.