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MRS. HOUSTON RITES TODAY

Wife of Prominent Lumberman Will Be Buried in Forest Park

Last rites for Mrs. Cora Dance Houston, 60, wife of I.N. Houston, prominent local lumberman, who died in a local sanitarium at 4 p.m. Tuesday, will be held from the First Baptist church at 10 a.m. today, the Rev. M.E. Dodd officiating. Interment will be in the Forest Park cemetery under the direction of Osborne's funeral home.

Mrs. Houston was born in Columbus, Texas, Feb. 7, 1875. Later with her parents she moved to Queen City, Ark., and later to Stamps, Ark. She was employed in Stamps by the Bodcaw Lumber company. She was married in Queen City in 1904. The couple moved to Shreveport in 1912. Mrs. Houston had been an active member of the First Baptist church since that time.

Surviving besides the widower, are a son, Earl Lafayette Houston, and two daughters, Miss Frances Eloise Houston and Lucile Dance Houston, one sister Mrs. J.E. Ellington of Queen City, Ark., and one brother, H.P. Dance, of Lake Wales, Fla.

Active pallbearers will be F.W. Bowen, J.O. Cupples, Claire C. Clark, J.M. Robinson, John L. Avery, Glenn Alfred, R.N. Allen and R.E. Jacobs. Honorary pallbearers will be deacons and directors of the First Baptist church.

(Published in The Shreveport Times on March 27, 1935)

Cora married Isaac Newton Houston 15 Jun 1904, Linden, Cass County, Texas, USA. Isaac (son of Lazarus Lafayette Houston and Frances Viola Campbell) was born 23 Jul 1877, Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 13 Mar 1955, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 14 Mar 1955, Forest Park Cemetery East - Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Lucile Dance Houston was born 22 Apr 1905, Stamps, Lafayette County, Arkansas, USA; died 7 Feb 1998, Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA; was buried , Estes Valley Memorial Gardens - Estes Park, Colorado, USA.
2. Isaac Newton Houston, Jr. was born 24 Aug 1907, Good Pine, La Salle Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 6 May 1908, Good Pine, La Salle Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried , Queen City Cemetery - Queen City, Texas, USA.
3. Frances Eloise Houston was born 28 Jan 1910, Good Pine, La Salle Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 18 Jun 2009, Mooringsport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 21 Jun 2009, Forest Park Cemetery East - Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
4. Earl Lafayette Houston, Sr. was born 6 May 1915, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 20 Mar 1995, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 22 Mar 1995, Forest Park Cemetery East - Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.