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Obituary of Mrs. Effie Dalzell Ingersoll
Source: The Shreveport Times Newspaper, Shreveport, LA
Tues., 21 July 1964, page 4-A
Submitter: Debra W. Dame
Doyline, LA
Wadebdame(a)aol.com
"RESIDENT'S RITES TO BE HELD TODAY"
Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Effie Dalzell Ingersoll, 91,
of 1804 Elizabeth St., at 4 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church.
The Rev. Michael Thompson, assistant rector of the church, will
officiate.
Mrs. Ingersoll died at 5:30 a.m. Monday at her home following a long
illness.
She was a lifetime resident of Shreveport. Born in 1873, she
attended Kate Nelson's School for Young Ladies and graduated from
Lousiana State Normal College (now Northwestern State College, at
Natchitoches).
Mrs. Ingersoll taught school for five years in Caddo Parish public
schools.
She was the widow of of the late Andrew Jackson Ingersoll, a cotton
broker. She was the daughter of the late Rev. W. T. D. Dalzell and
Estelle Logan Dalzell. The Rev. Dalzell was the former rector of St.
Mark's Church.
Mrs. Ingersoll was one of the founders of the Caddo Chapter of the
American Red Cross during World War I. She was a charter member of the
Shreveport Chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of
America, a charter member of the Women's Department Club, the North
Louisiana Historical Society and an honorary member of the Shreveport
Country Club.
She is survived by two daughters, Miss Estelle Ingersoll and Mrs.
Grace Ingersoll Smith, both of Shreveport; and two grandchildren, Bailey
Ingersoll and Shirley Dalzell Smith of Shreveport.
She will be buried at Oakland Cemetery. The Osborn Funeral Home is
making arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Floyd Hughes, William B. Hamilton, Henry Furman,
Albert Cowan, Allen Grave and W. I. Ingersoll.
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