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Obituary:

Funeral services for Mrs. James (Anna Belle Cole Trouard) Files, 59, of Ragley, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, September 23, in Johnson Funeral Home.

The Rev. Charles Willis will officiate. Burial will be in Creel Memorial Gardens in Bel.

Visitation will be from 5-10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. Friday.

Mrs. Files died Friday in Freeport, Bahamas.

A native of Lake Charles, she had lived in Ragley a number of years. She worked for the state Department of Health and Human Resources, was a retired insurance agent, and was a past worthy matron of Order of Eastern Star Magnolia Lodge.

Survivors are her husband, one son, Ronald D. Trouard of Lake Charles; three stepsons, James Files Jr. of Youngville, John Dewayne Files of Columbia and Michael Lee Files of San Diego, Calif; her mother, Mrs. David (Katherine M.) Cole of Ragley, and four grandchildren.

(Published in The Lake Charles American Press on September 22, 1988)

Anna married James Desmond Files, Sr. 3 Aug 1981, Lavaca County, Texas, USA. James (son of Wiley Woodson Files, Sr. and Alva Alta Crow) was born 9 Mar 1925, Gorman, Eastland County, Texas, USA; died 22 Jan 2009, Moss Bluff, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 24 Jan 2009, Creel Cemetery - Reeves, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]