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Exar Estelle <I>Coleman</I> Gresham

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Exar Estelle Coleman Gresham

Birth
Homer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
9 Jun 1952 (aged 57)
Atlanta, Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Atlanta, Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Mrs. H. A. Gresham, 57, prominent Atlanta church and civic leader, died at her home at 8:45 a.m. Monday, June 9, 1952 following a long illness. Funeral services were conducted at the Atlanta Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday by the Rev. Ernest Walker, pastor, and interment was in the Atlanta Cemetery under direction of the Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

A native of Claiborne Parish, near Homer, Mrs. Gresham was married at Clarence, La., May 14, 1911. She was active in the Women's Missionary and other departments of the Atlanta Baptist Church, and in community affairs, and was president of the Atlanta Home Demonstration Club.

Survivors include her husband, H. A. Gresham, [missing] Winnsboro; four sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Dick, Mrs. H. T. Watts, Mrs. G. G. Smith, and Mrs. Joseph Gordon, all of Shreveport; and two brothers, O. L. Coleman and Thomas Coleman also of Shreveport.

Pallbearers were John Henry Barnes, Kenneth Williams, Donald Harrison, Ezeb Vercher, Archie Lovell, Granville Kilpatrick, Prentiss Cook, and Emmett Thompson.

Published in The Winnfield News-American or Winn Parish Enterprise, June 13, 1952
Mrs. H. A. Gresham, 57, prominent Atlanta church and civic leader, died at her home at 8:45 a.m. Monday, June 9, 1952 following a long illness. Funeral services were conducted at the Atlanta Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday by the Rev. Ernest Walker, pastor, and interment was in the Atlanta Cemetery under direction of the Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

A native of Claiborne Parish, near Homer, Mrs. Gresham was married at Clarence, La., May 14, 1911. She was active in the Women's Missionary and other departments of the Atlanta Baptist Church, and in community affairs, and was president of the Atlanta Home Demonstration Club.

Survivors include her husband, H. A. Gresham, [missing] Winnsboro; four sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Dick, Mrs. H. T. Watts, Mrs. G. G. Smith, and Mrs. Joseph Gordon, all of Shreveport; and two brothers, O. L. Coleman and Thomas Coleman also of Shreveport.

Pallbearers were John Henry Barnes, Kenneth Williams, Donald Harrison, Ezeb Vercher, Archie Lovell, Granville Kilpatrick, Prentiss Cook, and Emmett Thompson.

Published in The Winnfield News-American or Winn Parish Enterprise, June 13, 1952


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