Newspapers/Obits: Ben F. Sewell, Claiborne Parish, LA Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Debra Walker Dame, wadebdame @ aol.com Date: Apr. 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.org/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Obituary of BEN F. SEWELL Source: The Shreveport Times Newspaper, Shreveport, LA Wednesday, 20 Jan 1965, page 5-A BEN F. SEWELL Homer--Funeral services for Ben F. Sewell, 84, of Athens, will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Cross Roads Methodist Church with the Rev. B. P. Burbin, the Rev. Beverly Bond and the Rev. V. L. Westbrook officiating. Burial will be in Hurricane Cemetery under the direction of Davidson Funeral Home of Homer. Mr. Sewell died Monday in a Shreveport clinic. Survivors include his widow; three sons, D. S. Sewell and Carlton Sewell, both of Shreveport, and Benny Sewell of Homer; seven daughters, Mrs. Louis Morrison of Athens, Mrs. Betty Webb of Haughton, Miss Judy Sewell of Athens, Mrs. Brittie Wenchester, and Mrs. Audie Lee and Mrs. Claudia Lanier and Mrs. Lula Bridges, all of Shreveport; one sister, Mrs. Clara Dobbs of Goodwater, Tex.; a brother, Billy Lee of Wetumka, Ala.; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. # # #