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"Lena Carlock Shoemaker
bshoumaker1 Posted: 16 Jun 2009 11:30AM
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Shoemaker, Carlock, Weaver, Herrington, Williams, Smith, Gilbert,
Hixon, Jordan
OBIT
Mrs. Lena
Shoemaker<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/shoemaker-family-history.ashx>,
83, died at Ball-Ellington Clinic here Monday after a long illness. She was
a native of
Meadville<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/meadville-family-history.ashx>,
Miss., but had made her home in Rayville for many years.
She was the mother of H.S. Shoemaker and grandmother of
Houston<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/houston-family-history.ashx>
Shoemaker <
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/shoemaker-family-history.ashx>, who
are owners of a local farm implement manufacturing business here.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of
Mulhearn<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/mulhearn-family-history.ashx>...
Home with Rev. E.N. Weaver officiating and Dr. H.R. Herrington,
local pastor, assisting.
Burial was in Rayville Masonic Cemetery by Mulhearn's.
Survivors include her husband, Martin
Shoemaker<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/shoemaker-family-history.ashx>,
of Rayville; three daughters, Mrs. Zula
Williams<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/williams-family-history.ashx>,
of Baton Rouge; Mrs. Ollie
Smith<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/smith-family-history.ashx>,
of Whittier <
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/whittier-family-history.ashx>,
Calif.; and Mrs. Lela Gilbert, of
Belle<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/belle-family-history.ashx>Garden,
Calif.; one son, Henry S. Shoemaker, Rayville; 11 grandchildren, 28
great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Frank
Hixon<http://www.ancestry.com/facts/hixon-family-history.ashx>,
Elmer Smith <
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/smith-family-history.ashx>, J.W.
Jordan, J.B. Shoemaker, C.A. Shoemaker, and J.E. Shoemaker.
---Richland Beacon-News, Dec. 18, 1965."