The Leesville Daily Leader from Leesville, Louisiana (2024)

April 8, 2015

Publication:

The Leesville Daily Leaderi

Location:

Leesville, Louisiana

Issue Date:

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Page:

2

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2 Leesville Daily Leader Wednesday April 8 2015 Need an IRA? Cal or stop by today! YVnMMMNn TTB WEDNESDAY OBITUARIES Patty Bowles uneral services for Patty Anding Underwood Bowles 75 of New Llano will be held at 11 am Wednesday April 8 at the Labby Memorial uneral Home chapel in Leesville Burial will follow in the Blue Branch Cemetery under the direction of Labby Memorial uneral Home of Leesville Visitation was Tuesday April 7 from 1 pm until 9 pm and con wTilW I tinned on Wednesday April 8 from 9 am until time of service at the funeral home Patty the daughter of Edward and Loree Marrcle Anding was bom on eb 9 19 10 in Pitkin She passed away at her residence in New Llano on Sunday April 5 2015 Mrs Bowles worked for Nichols for a number of years She loved to garden She was preceded in death by her husband Abe Lee Bowles She is survived by her four children Loree Elliott of DeRidder Edward Underwood and wife Ann of Leesville Billy Ray Underwood of Leesville and James Perry Underwood of New Llano two brothers Ray Anding of Pitkin and Billy Anding of DeRidder four grandsons Chad Elliott and Aaron Elliott both of DeRidder and Chance Underwood and Jesse Underwood both of Rosepine three great grandsons Isaac McCasland of DeRidder Devion Elliott of DeRidder and Chance Underwood Jr of Texas and a host of friends Words of comfort may lie expt eased to the Bowles family at wwwlabbymeinorialcom Shirley Ann Cobb uneral senices for Shirley Ann Cobb 73 of Leesville will be held at 1 pm on Thursday April 9 at the Labby Memorial Home chapel in Leesville with Rev Don Monk offi ciating Burial will follow in the Coofier Cemetery under the direction of Labby Memorial uneral Home of Leesville Visitation will be Wednesday April 8 from 5 pm until 9 pm and on Thursday April 9 from 9 am until sendee time at Its 41 If the funeral home Shirley the daughter of Harvey and Docin Jordan Jeane was born April 4 1942 in Pineville She passed O' A A 1 CZ I ll a avaj VII uutui viujj 1 1 Mrs Cobb loved fishing and spending time with her family She was preceded in death by her parents husband LC Cobb son Kenneth Cobb and brother Donald Jeane She is survived by her son Billy Cobb and wife Charla of Mississippi daughter Debra Smith and Ray Cunningham of Leesville brother Robert Jeane and wife Brenda of Tuttle Oklahoma sister Barbara Cobb of Dayton Texas grandchildren Marlena Batson Tammy Skinner Brian Batson and Jayden Cobb and 12 great grandcltildren Words of comfort may be expressed to the Cobb fam ily at wwwlabbymemorialcom Kiku Okouchi Thomas Memorial services for Mrs Kiku (June) Okouchi Thomas 85 of Anacoco will be held at 11 am riday April 10 in the Labby Memorial uneral Home chapel with Mr William (Bill) Pardue officiating Burial will follow in the Central Louisiana Cemetery under the direction of Labby Memorial uneral Home of Leesville Visitation will be held from 10 am until service time riday in the funeral home Mrs June loved life and family to cook and play bingo She worked 22 years at Emerald Hills Resort in lorien Being a military wife she traveled with her husband to different assignments Their son rank was born in rance She always put her family and many friends first She will be missed by all who knew and loved her She was a trusting and wonderful person and we all miss her already Mrs June as she was affectionately called is sur vived by her husband of more than 60 years Gardner Thomas of Anacoco son rank Thomas and wife Melissa of risco Texas brothers Isamu Okouchi of Yokohoma Japan and sisters Uta Guidry of Church Point Riyoko Ishii ofTokyo Japan and Tomiko Okouclii of Yokohama Japan The family of Mrs Thomas would like to give a spe cial thanks to the nursing staff at Byrd Regional Hospital in Leesville for the excellent care extended to her during her short illness The family also would like to request that no flow ers be sent to the memorial service Words of comfort may lie expressed to the Thomas family at wwwlabbymernorialcom PENDING Jessie Adams Arrangements for Jessie Adams 73 of DeRidder are being handled by Labby Memorial uneral Home of DeRidder Mr Adams passed from this life on Sunday April 5 2015 at his residence Virginia Lewis uneral services for Virginia Lewis 49 of Leesville will be announced by the Labby Memorial uneral Home chapel in Leesville Mrs Lewis passed away April 5 2015 in Leesville Pineville man dies in structure fire rom NEWS REPORTS PINEVILLE Investigators of the Louisiana State ire Office respond ed to a residential struc ture fire that claimed the life of a Pineville man early Saturday morning According to a release issued by ire Marshal's Office authorities the Pineville ire Department was dispatched to 930 Main Street just before 4 am where firefighters found flames emanating from a wood frame quad plex apartment structure Because of the probability that at least one resident may have been in the structure at the time the services of State ire Marshal investigators were requested stated authories Shortly after the arrival of investigators ire Marshal officials stated firefighters discovered the body of resident Roliert Rivers 68 in the charred ruins Rivers lived in one of die in the northwest quadrant of the structure wliich was effec tively destroyed by the fire officials stated adding after being thor oughly examined by inves tigators body was later released to the Rapides Parish Coroner for autopsy In addition officials stated family members informed investigators that Rivers who was physically handicapped had Ix en battling illness for a prolonged period of time Initial findings by investigators indicate the fire originated in the south end of the structure between two of the units one of which was vacant at the time of the fire according to authorities Investigators are still in the process determining the cause of the fire as they are currently unable to exclude a utilities relat ed incident stated offi cials The investigation into this deadly fire is active and continuing Send us photos and a short description of your club or organization's most recent event or gathering to newsleesville dailyleadercom and we'll publish it in the Leesville Daily Leader Telephone Scam keters are calling area res idents and posing as employees of the Vernon Parish Office in an attempt to obtain per sonal information "The phone call will appear to come from a phone number belonging to the office" said Craft our only defense to this is to warn everyone about the The telemarketers are using a program on their phones that changes the number and it appears as a local number said the Continued from Page 1 release Craft stated the calls are originating from most ly foreign countries that do not have laws against this type of activity you receive one of these phone calls and have any questions whatsoever please contact the office at (337) 238 1311" Craft said "As far as we know there is no way to reroute the number called by residents so if you dial the sheriff's office number you will get the Proclamation Continued from Page 1 light that April is the Month of the Military Child and as a proud father of four who have gone through mul tiple movesMy kids have sacrificed a lot and every military child has sacrificed a lot to let their military parent serve I do believe the unsung heroes of this war on terror have been our military spouses and our military children grateful that we've taken the month of April to highlight the sacrifices that they do" "We want to do everything we can in Leesville and in Vernon Parish to be a team player and help in any way we said Allen "Our police department and fire department reach out to our young people daily because we want their experience with our law enforcement to be a positive oneSo that is our goal with the city to reach out to our young people and make sure they know if they need to talk they can talk to us We need to be accessible to our young people" Weather Louisiana At A Glance Shrasfport Area Cities National Cities Moon Phases UV Index 410 High Moderate High Moderate High Amencan Profile Hometown Content Servfce Local 5 Day orecast Lo Cond Hi Last Apr 12 Wert 48 41 43 83 68 34 61 84 55 45 79 59 61 81 55 New Apr 18 Sat 4'11 Sunrite 6'48 AM Sunset: 7 39 PM irst Apr 25 Alexandria Bastrof Baton Rouge Beaumont TX Bi lox MS Covington Crowley Dallas TX Hattisburg MS Houma Houston TX Jac son MS La'ayette laxe Charies Little Rock AR Sun 412 mixed ra storm mst sunny doudy rain pt sunny vr tr a higher UV Incex snowing ne need lor greater Sier protection Minneapolis New York Phoenix San rancisco Seattle St Louis Washington DC Sun 1 412 i Boston Chicago Dallas Denvur Houston Los Angeles Miami 39 39 50 48 43 68 46 ull Apr 4 Baton Rouge 8709 8070 Thunder storms Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s cloud rain pt sunny storm cloudy storm rain Thu 49 yt CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN SffUtlTif 35 41 67 38 72 48 73 Monroe 8568 8170 Charlee 8468 vww 8570 1 4' 2 83 I 0 i i i i Wed Thu it Sat 48 49 410 411 2 8668 8569 8265 8167 Cloudy skias Cloudy Thunder Thunder early then Highs in the storms storms partly cloudy mid 80s and Highs in the Hiyhs in the in the after lows in the low 80s and low 80s and noon High upper 60s lows in the lows in the 86 mid 60s upper 60s Sunrise: Sunrise: Sunriee: Sunrise: 6 53 AM 6 52 AM 6 51AM 650 AM Sunset: Sunset: Sunset: Sunset: 7 36 PM 737 PM 7 37 PM 738 PM 86 69 cloudy Memphis TN 83 67 pt sunny 83 67 pt sunny Minden 85 68 cloudy 87 69 pt sunny Mobile AL 80 68 pt sunny 81 69 cloudy Monroe 85 69 pt sunny 79 70 pt sunny Natchez MS 84 67 cloudy 86 68 pt sunny New Iberia 84 70 pt sunny 84 70 pt sunny New Orleans 85 73 pt sunny 83 67 storm Opelousas 84 68 pt sunny 87 67 mst sunny Pilottown 79 66 mst sunny 84 68 pt sunny Shreveport 83 68 cloudy 86 71 cloudy Slidell 83 67 pt sunny 86 67 pl sunny Texarkana TX 83 66 cloudy 85 70 pt sunny Tulsa OK 84 69 windy 84 68 pt sunny Vicksburg M3 82 68 mst sunny 85 68 pt sunny Winnfield 85 68 cloudy Hickman arewell ated everything Gen Hickman has done for our community and we wish him all the best and Godspeed as he moves on to Kuwait" said Leesville Mayor Rick Allen "We're looking forward to work ing with Gen McGuire as we continue to support ort Polk" "Gen Hickman's devo tion to his soldiers their families and this commu nity has been commend able We're so appreciative of all of his hard work" said Jim Tuck president of the Vernon Parish Police Jury "We also want to welcome Gen McGuire to ort Polk and Vernon Parish and invite him to call upon us whenever the need arises" Hickman's lead Continued from Page 1 ership and commitment to excellence have been a valuable asset to the com munities and people sur rounding ort Polk While we'll certainly miss him we wish him and his fami ly all the best as they pre pare for his next duty sta tion" said DeRidder Mayor Ron Roberts 'We also welcome Gen McGuire who we believe will be a wonderful addi tion to the ort Polk area and a steadfast partner in future endeavors" Leesville Daily Leader A Division of Gatehouse Media Inc The Leesville 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