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Submitted: 3/21/20 • Approved: 3/22/20 • Last Updated: 3/25/20 • R255105-G255104-S3
June 1, 1913 - May 29, 1950
Bogalusa American & Enterprise
Friday, June 2, 1950
FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. SADYE RESTER
Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Mrs. Sadye Cooper Rester, 37, who died at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Cooper of the Lee's Creek community, at 7 p.m. Tuesday after a four-week illness
with an incurable brain disease.
Mrs. Rester was born and reared in Bogalusa and attended the public schools of this city, having graduated from the Bogalusa High School. Until her illness, she was a valued employee of J. C. Penny Company, having been regularly employed there since 1937.
Mrs. Rester worked on Monday, May 8, but was taken ill the following day.
She was suddenly stricken with a paralysis, and was advised by her family physician to see a specialist. She underwent a minor operation in New Orleans on the following Saturday and was sent home to recuperate.
She lapsed into a coma the following Saturday. Last week, she was taken back to a New Orleans hospital for further treatment but was brought back to Bogalusa when specialists "gave up hope," Her sudden illness and death came as a shock to her many friends, who had known Sadye Rester as a most energetic worker, self-sacrificing individual who was faithful to her family and her friends. She was an active member of the ESM Methodist church, having been a Sunday School teacher, active in
young people's work and in the ladies organizations of the church.
She was married to H. E. Rester four years ago, and the Resters had recently completed a new home in the Lee's Creek vicinity.
The funeral Tuesday was held at the chapel of Brown Funeral Home with the Rev. P. M. Caraway officiating, assisted by the Rev. W. F. Hutson and the Rev.
Horatio Mitchell. Interment was in the McGehee cemetery with Brown Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Rester is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Cooper, four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Hosey, a teacher in the public schools of
Bogalusa, Mrs. Christine Murdock of Long Beach, Calif., Miss Betty Jane Cooper of this city and Miss Elaine Cooper, a student at Southeastern Louisiana College in Hammond; and one brother, James Ray Cooper of Clearwater, Fla.
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