This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------61632BE374CDE5FAB7F0C1BD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------61632BE374CDE5FAB7F0C1BD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="trahan29.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="trahan29.txt" Obituaries: Madaliene Trahan, 1929, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: January 10, 1929 Winn Parish Enterprise Funeral Services Held Sunday For Little Madaliene Trahan Funeral services for little Madaliene Trahan, who died at the Baptist Sanitarium, Alexandria, Saturday, January 5, were held at the First Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, 3 o'clock. Services were in charge of the Rev. Alwin Stokes, of Ferriday, former pastor of the Winnfield Presbyterian Church and intimate friend of the family, and the Rev. S. B. Williams, present pastor of the Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. H. Cullen and the Rev. C. C. Wier. A choir composed of singers from choirs of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Gladden rendered beautiful consoling hymns. Miss Ethie Vernon, music teacher of Madaliene, was at the piano. An escort of honor who were classmates of little Madaliene was composed of the following: Louise Carter, Helen Price, Eleanor Campbell, Jena Jackson, Ruth Elaine Harper, and Janella Williams; pallbearers were Jim Scott, Jr., Prentis Cole, A. L. Smith, Jr., and Atwood Davis. There were many and beautiful floral tributes. A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends were in attendance. Interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery. Madaliene, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ovey Trahan, was 8 years, 3 months, and 11 days old. She was a talented child, a sweet and loving disposition, and her parents and relatives being held in the highest esteem in the community, she left a multitude of friends to mourn her passing. Madaliene was ill a little more than two weeks. She was carried to the Baptist Sanitarium a week before her death, where it was found she had pneumonia and other complications. The best of medical attentions and loving cared was rendered, but to no relief. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ovey Trahan, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Austin, uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hastings, of Winnfield; grandmother, Mrs. Trahan of Lafayette; and the following uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters of her father, from New Orleans, Maurice and Lafayette, La.: John, Phillip, Ernest, Henry , Gus, Bienvenue, Louise, and Asame Trahan. --------------61632BE374CDE5FAB7F0C1BD--