Parents were John Thomas DeVault and Martha Barnes DeVault.

Rites Held For Miss Ada DeVault
Devoted relatives and friends assembled in the chapel of First Baptist Church at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon to pay final loving tribute to Miss Ada DeVault, beloved church worker and retired telephone company employee. The rites were conducted by the Rev. Allison Bell, pastor, Miss Hellon Upchurch, church music and education director sang "Beyond the Sunset" Mrs. Harold Arnold was the accompanist.

Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Barry Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers were W. C. Stewart, Roy Evans, Joe Lee Colbert, Jackie Gordon, H. R. Culpepper and Hansel Rogers.

Miss DeVault, who would have been 82 in November, died at 5:05 Saturday morning at Okolona Community Hospital where she had been a patient for 10 days. She had been in ill health for the past several months.

A daughter of the late John Thomas DeVault and the late Martha Kathryn Barnes DeVault, she was born on a farm in McNairy County, Tennessee and attended school in Selma Tennessee.

Her father died when she was a child. In 1905, with her mother and other members of the family, she moved to Corinth and worked for a telephone company. They came to Okolona in 1919 and she was employed by a telephone company. When she retired after 35 years of service, she was honored by Southern Bell Telephone Company and presented a service pin. Her mother died in February 1944.

He most loyal member of First Baptist Church she gave unstintingly of her time to its work. She was faithful in her attendance at all worship services, the Sunday School, Training Union, Women's Missionary Society, worked with the Vacation Bible School and other places where she could be of service. She was chairman of a Woman's Missionary Society Circle and had attended a Mission Study meeting at the church only three days before her condition became critical. She had served on various committees through the years.

Miss DeVault leaves a niece Mrs. George C.Johnston of Clarksdale; six nephews, Howard DeVault of Houston, Texas, Charles DeVault of Biloxi, Thomas DeVault of Tupelo,Doris DeVault and William A. DeVault of Clarksdale, and Jimmy DeVault, all of whom were here, and a number of great nieces and nephews.

Among others coming were George C. Johnston, Jr., Mrs. A. D. DeVault,Mrs. A. D. DeVault, Sr. and Mrs. L. K. Huff of Clarksdale, Miss Mabel Barnes, Miss Earnestine Barnes, John R. Barnes of Houston, Texas, Mrs. Thomas DeVault and R. E. Wascombe of Tupelo, Mrs. Charles DeVault of Biloxi and Mrs. E. F. Hutson of Houston.

The Okolona Messenger, Thursday, August 26, 1965, Page 1.