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Nancy Gertrude <I>Arender</I> Richards

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Nancy Gertrude Arender Richards

Birth
Lorena, Smith County, Mississippi, USA
Death
26 Jan 1987 (aged 82)
Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Dry Prong, Grant Parish, Louisiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.5784216, Longitude: -92.5352621
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DRY PRONG -- Services for Nancy Arender Richards will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Dry Prong Cemetery under direction of Hixson Bros., Alexandria.

Mrs. Richards, 82, of Alexandria died at 9:25 p.m. Monday in Rapides General Hospital, Alexandria.

She was a native of Smith County, Miss., and a former Dry Prong resident. She was a dietician for Central Louisiana State Hospital.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she taught primary grades, and a member of the American Association of Retired Persons. She was a member of the Grant Parish Demonstration Club and served as its president. She was a volunteer at Friendship House and was a member of the Golden Star No. 73 Order of the Eastern Star. She was the first woman to serve on the Dry Prong Town Council.

She was the widow of James Clinton Richards.

Survivors include two sons, Harold R. Richards of Dry Prong and James C. "Jim" Richards of Pineville; one daughter, Florine Richards Letlow of Rayville; one brother, Barney Arender of Slidell; one sister, Lois Drain of Hattiesburg, Miss., and 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Wednesday, January 28, 1987
DRY PRONG -- Services for Nancy Arender Richards will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Dry Prong Cemetery under direction of Hixson Bros., Alexandria.

Mrs. Richards, 82, of Alexandria died at 9:25 p.m. Monday in Rapides General Hospital, Alexandria.

She was a native of Smith County, Miss., and a former Dry Prong resident. She was a dietician for Central Louisiana State Hospital.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she taught primary grades, and a member of the American Association of Retired Persons. She was a member of the Grant Parish Demonstration Club and served as its president. She was a volunteer at Friendship House and was a member of the Golden Star No. 73 Order of the Eastern Star. She was the first woman to serve on the Dry Prong Town Council.

She was the widow of James Clinton Richards.

Survivors include two sons, Harold R. Richards of Dry Prong and James C. "Jim" Richards of Pineville; one daughter, Florine Richards Letlow of Rayville; one brother, Barney Arender of Slidell; one sister, Lois Drain of Hattiesburg, Miss., and 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Wednesday, January 28, 1987


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