Joseph Edward Beavers, 87, for the past 22 years a resident of the Belah community, Route 1, Trout, died at his home Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
Funeral services for the retired farmer were held Monday afternoon at the Belah Methodist church with the Revs. G. A. Pritchard, Paul Long and S. B. Spinks conducting the funeral services. Interment followed in the Belah cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.
Mr. Beavers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Beavers of Belah; four daughters, Mrs. Viola Peavy, Mrs. Myra Lofton, Mrs. Vera Thompson [sic Vira Thornton] and Mrs. Armer [sic Irma] Corley, all of Route 1, Trout; four sons, Ira of Pollock, Howard of Baton Rouge and Ivy and Arley [sic Arlie], both of Route 1, Trout; 37 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The officiating ministers also conducted graveside rites, with C. C. Beavers, Alvin Lofton, Calton Lofton, Welby Peavy, Edward Thornton and Alton Lofton serving as pallbearers.
Published in The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal, November 14, 1957
Funeral services for the retired farmer were held Monday afternoon at the Belah Methodist church with the Revs. G. A. Pritchard, Paul Long and S. B. Spinks conducting the funeral services. Interment followed in the Belah cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.
Mr. Beavers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Beavers of Belah; four daughters, Mrs. Viola Peavy, Mrs. Myra Lofton, Mrs. Vera Thompson [sic Vira Thornton] and Mrs. Armer [sic Irma] Corley, all of Route 1, Trout; four sons, Ira of Pollock, Howard of Baton Rouge and Ivy and Arley [sic Arlie], both of Route 1, Trout; 37 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The officiating ministers also conducted graveside rites, with C. C. Beavers, Alvin Lofton, Calton Lofton, Welby Peavy, Edward Thornton and Alton Lofton serving as pallbearers.
Published in The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal, November 14, 1957
Joseph Edward Beavers, 87, for the past 22 years a resident of the Belah community, Route 1, Trout, died at his home Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
Funeral services for the retired farmer were held Monday afternoon at the Belah Methodist church with the Revs. G. A. Pritchard, Paul Long and S. B. Spinks conducting the funeral services. Interment followed in the Belah cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.
Mr. Beavers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Beavers of Belah; four daughters, Mrs. Viola Peavy, Mrs. Myra Lofton, Mrs. Vera Thompson [sic Vira Thornton] and Mrs. Armer [sic Irma] Corley, all of Route 1, Trout; four sons, Ira of Pollock, Howard of Baton Rouge and Ivy and Arley [sic Arlie], both of Route 1, Trout; 37 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The officiating ministers also conducted graveside rites, with C. C. Beavers, Alvin Lofton, Calton Lofton, Welby Peavy, Edward Thornton and Alton Lofton serving as pallbearers.
Published in The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal, November 14, 1957
Funeral services for the retired farmer were held Monday afternoon at the Belah Methodist church with the Revs. G. A. Pritchard, Paul Long and S. B. Spinks conducting the funeral services. Interment followed in the Belah cemetery under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.
Mr. Beavers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Beavers of Belah; four daughters, Mrs. Viola Peavy, Mrs. Myra Lofton, Mrs. Vera Thompson [sic Vira Thornton] and Mrs. Armer [sic Irma] Corley, all of Route 1, Trout; four sons, Ira of Pollock, Howard of Baton Rouge and Ivy and Arley [sic Arlie], both of Route 1, Trout; 37 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The officiating ministers also conducted graveside rites, with C. C. Beavers, Alvin Lofton, Calton Lofton, Welby Peavy, Edward Thornton and Alton Lofton serving as pallbearers.
Published in The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal, November 14, 1957
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