Rae obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by: Rae, Mattie Parker 8 Jan 2000 Jan 2000 Don Johnson *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on: 1/8/2000 RAE, MATTIE PARKER A retired principal with East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, she died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2000, at Ollie Steele Burden Manor after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's. She was 91, a resident of Baton Rouge and a native of Amite. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday and after 11 a.m. Monday. Religious services at the funeral home at 12:30 p.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Wilson A. "Bill" Holcombe. Interment in Roselawn Memorial Park. Survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Bobbie Rae and Richard Cox, Hammond; three granddaughters, Vivan Lynn Cox, San Francisco, Catherine Cox and Michael Powers, Port Neches, Texas, and Marsha Cox and Scott Pfeffer, St. Petersburg, Fla.; four great-grandsons and a great-granddaughter. Preceded in death by parents, Fred C. and Lelia Estelle Parker Sr.; two brothers, Fred C. Parker Jr. and John Davis Parker Sr.; and two sisters, Juanita Parker Law and Minnie Parker Sessions. Pallbearers will be Robert R. Parker, Whilden S. Parker, John D. Parker Jr., J. Michael Parker, and great-grandsons, Juston Marshall, Brandon Powers, Christopher Marshall and Richard Powers. Honorary pallbearers are Judge John B. Parker, Robert F. Parker, Curt Miller and Edward Duprey. She was a member of Istrouma Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and White Shrine and Y.A.W.S. Church of the Way Presbyterian. ***************************************************************************