Obituaries

Cecil Lee Kifer Jr. was born on Nov. 24, 1955, in Newellton, to Cecil and Mary Emma Kifer.

He was a 1973 graduate of Tensas Academy and attended Louisiana Tech University on a football scholarship. He began farming in Tensas Parish in 1976. In 1998, he obtained his crop consultant’s license. He went to Heaven on Jan. 11, 2021 surrounded by his family.

Funeral services for Martha A. Brown, 83, of Rayville, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel, Rayville, with Bro. Kevin Bates officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Antioch Cemetery, Rayville.

Mrs. Martha was born June 12, 1937 in Sylvester, GA, and passed away Sunday, January 10, 2021 in Rayville.

Mrs. Martha is preceded in death by her parents, Perry and Lois Anglin; twin siblings, Pete Anglin and Lartha Marroy; sisters, Louise Umbel and Ruth Phillips; and her grandson, Joseph Morris.

Murial Boggan Brewster of Rayville passed away at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe Tuesday, January 5, 2021, at the age of 93.

Murial was born October 6, 1927, to John Henry and Mary Miranda in Bath Springs, Tennessee. She graduated from Jet High School in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She married William “Willie” Volney Rabb in 1947.

Murial belonged to and was active in the Methodist Church all of her life in all of the cities that she dwelled.