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SHREVEPORT, LA - Services for Effie Bumgardner, 102, will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, February 28, 2002 at Rose-Neath's Mansfield Chapel. Officiating will be Rev. Craig Beman, pastor of Wallace Baptist Church. Burial will be in Wallace Cemetery, Pelican, LA.

Mrs. Bumgardner died Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at Willis-Knighton Pierremont after a brief illness. A native of Natchitoches, LA, Mrs. Bumgardner was a former resident of Mansfield, LA and resided in Shreveport LA. She was a retired school teacher, having taught in the DeSoto Parish Schools for 38 years. Mrs. Bumgardner was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mansfield, LA.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Rosa and James Cook; son, James K. Bumgardner; brothers, Earl Cook, Alton Lester Cook and James Edward Cook. Survivors are several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Glen Hill, Waymon Haire, Fred Hill, Mack Bankston, Jerry Bass, Sims Calhoun, Whit Porter and B.B. Haire.

Rose-Neath Funeral Home
Mansfield, LA 318-872-4660

(Published in The Shreveport Times on February 28, 2002)

Effie married John Kendrick Bumgardner 1934; divorced 1944. John (son of Jacob Alexander Bumgardner, Jr. and Lena Tabitha Kendrick) was born 25 Nov 1915, Jena, La Salle Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 1 Mar 1979, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 3 Mar 1979, Greenoaks Memorial Park - Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. James Kendrick Bumgardner was born 23 Jan 1937, Converse, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 27 Jul 1993, Lacombe, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, USA.