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Hughey Philetus Bishop

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Hughey Philetus Bishop

Birth
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
25 Mar 1959 (aged 79)
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Dodson, Winn Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for Huey Philetus Bishop, 79, of Hudson Community, at Harmony Grove Baptist Church. Mr. Bishop died Wednesday night in a Pineville hospital after an illness of several weeks.

Conducting the services will be Rev. E. B. Barton, pastor of Welcome Home Baptist church, of which he was a member, with burial in Harmony Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Bishop was a native of Asheville, N.C., and was employed by a lumber company in Hodge for 25 years.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Esther Kelly Erskins Bishop, of Hudson; three sons, Huey P. Bishop of Ada, Okla., Jamie Joe Bishop of Odessa, Tex., and Thomas Kelly Bishop of Shreveport; four daughters, Mrs. Roy Potter, of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Alice Cole of Vada, Okla., Mrs. Lela Williams of Olla, and Mrs. Mary Faye Bellar of Virginia; one stepson, Luther Jenkins of Gaars Mill, two stepdaughters, Miss Vera Erskins of Chicago and Mrs. John D. Waters of Shreveport; 20 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren; two brothers, Harlan T. Bishop of Spokane, Wash., and Adger Bishop of Memphis, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Will Ditto of Dayton, Oregon.

Pallbearers will be Edwin Gaar, Shelby Gaar, Carthal Payne, Clayton Norred, R. G. Simpkins, and J. Y. Terry.

Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American, March 26, 1959
Funeral services for Huey Philetus Bishop, 79, of Hudson Community, at Harmony Grove Baptist Church. Mr. Bishop died Wednesday night in a Pineville hospital after an illness of several weeks.

Conducting the services will be Rev. E. B. Barton, pastor of Welcome Home Baptist church, of which he was a member, with burial in Harmony Grove Cemetery.

Mr. Bishop was a native of Asheville, N.C., and was employed by a lumber company in Hodge for 25 years.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Esther Kelly Erskins Bishop, of Hudson; three sons, Huey P. Bishop of Ada, Okla., Jamie Joe Bishop of Odessa, Tex., and Thomas Kelly Bishop of Shreveport; four daughters, Mrs. Roy Potter, of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Alice Cole of Vada, Okla., Mrs. Lela Williams of Olla, and Mrs. Mary Faye Bellar of Virginia; one stepson, Luther Jenkins of Gaars Mill, two stepdaughters, Miss Vera Erskins of Chicago and Mrs. John D. Waters of Shreveport; 20 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren; two brothers, Harlan T. Bishop of Spokane, Wash., and Adger Bishop of Memphis, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Will Ditto of Dayton, Oregon.

Pallbearers will be Edwin Gaar, Shelby Gaar, Carthal Payne, Clayton Norred, R. G. Simpkins, and J. Y. Terry.

Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American, March 26, 1959

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