Headline: Last Rites Held For Former Resident
Funeral services for Mrs. Lula Pope May, 54, of Pineville, were held at 3 p.m. Monday in Zion's Rest Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Reubin Monk officiating. Burial was in Zion's Rest Cemetery under the direction of John Kramer and Son Funeral Home in Alexandria.
Mrs. May died Sunday in an Alexandria Hospital of a gunshot wound to the head, apparently self-inflicted. Rapides Parish Coroner, Dr. O. B. Owens, said the woman apparently shot her self in the right temple with a 38 caliber pistol in the living room of her home. Investigators said she had been despondent and reportedly made two previous attempts to take her own life. She was a native of Jackson Parish.
Mrs. May is survived by her husband. A.H. May, Jr., a son, A.H. May III, of Alexandria, three brothers, James A. Pope of Washington D.C., D.A. Pope of Alexandria, and Jesse Pope of Jonesboro; seven sisters, Mrs. Fanny Hamer of Pineville, Mrs. T.H. Walsworth, Jonesboro, Mrs. Eunice Cramer and Mrs. Audrey Gamble, both of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Agnes Saunders and Mrs. Effie Smith of Shreveport, Mrs. Lorene Everst of mooringsport, and one granddaughter.
Pallbearers wee Ernest Hogan, Wilfred Scroggins, Louie Boss, Earl McBride, J.D. Walsworth, and Buie McBride. Honorary pallbearers were John Coon and members of the fire marshall's staff, Roy H. Odom, Paul Stinson, I.J. Allen, W.H. Kilpatrick, Heywood Moore, Bill Hobbs, Walter Reynolds, Zack Lofton, Max Roby, and J.W. Gilbert.
Headline: Last Rites Held For Former Resident
Funeral services for Mrs. Lula Pope May, 54, of Pineville, were held at 3 p.m. Monday in Zion's Rest Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Reubin Monk officiating. Burial was in Zion's Rest Cemetery under the direction of John Kramer and Son Funeral Home in Alexandria.
Mrs. May died Sunday in an Alexandria Hospital of a gunshot wound to the head, apparently self-inflicted. Rapides Parish Coroner, Dr. O. B. Owens, said the woman apparently shot her self in the right temple with a 38 caliber pistol in the living room of her home. Investigators said she had been despondent and reportedly made two previous attempts to take her own life. She was a native of Jackson Parish.
Mrs. May is survived by her husband. A.H. May, Jr., a son, A.H. May III, of Alexandria, three brothers, James A. Pope of Washington D.C., D.A. Pope of Alexandria, and Jesse Pope of Jonesboro; seven sisters, Mrs. Fanny Hamer of Pineville, Mrs. T.H. Walsworth, Jonesboro, Mrs. Eunice Cramer and Mrs. Audrey Gamble, both of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Agnes Saunders and Mrs. Effie Smith of Shreveport, Mrs. Lorene Everst of mooringsport, and one granddaughter.
Pallbearers wee Ernest Hogan, Wilfred Scroggins, Louie Boss, Earl McBride, J.D. Walsworth, and Buie McBride. Honorary pallbearers were John Coon and members of the fire marshall's staff, Roy H. Odom, Paul Stinson, I.J. Allen, W.H. Kilpatrick, Heywood Moore, Bill Hobbs, Walter Reynolds, Zack Lofton, Max Roby, and J.W. Gilbert.
Family Members
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James Pinckney Pope
1884–1966
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Daniel Reuben Pope
1886–1920
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Sally Ola Pope Walsworth
1889–1985
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George Jefferson Pope
1890–1950
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Elizabeth Frances "Fannie" Pope Haynes
1894–1996
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David Almer Pope
1896–1974
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Eunice Pope Miller
1898–2000
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Audrey Nicy Pope Rice
1901–1995
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Jesse Franklin Pope
1903–1971
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Mrs Winne Agnes Pope Saunders
1905–1992
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Effie Pope Smith
1911–1997
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Lorene Melissa Pope Everts
1915–2007
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