The Leesville Daily Leader from Leesville, Louisiana (2024)

February 26, 2008

Publication:

The Leesville Daily Leaderi

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Leesville, Louisiana

Issue Date:

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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2

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i duuL 01 viiiUKltri Jybixi Y'iiti ytiivywi 2 Leesville Daily Leader Tuesday ebruary' 26 2008 TUESDAY OBITUARIES LENA OAKES MCRAE uneral services for Lena Oakes "McRae 99 of Leesville will be held at 11 am Wednesday ebruary 27 2008 at Labby Memorial uneral Home in Leesville with Rev Bobby Shirley offi ciating Burial will follow in the Self Cemetery in Leesville under the direction of Labby Memorial uneral Home of Leesville Visitation will be held from 5 pm to 9 pm Tuesday eb 26 and from 8 am until time of service Wednesday eb 27 at Labby Memorial uneral Home She passed away on eb 24 at Woodlands Care Center in Leesville Mrs McRae was born April 24 1908 in Pickering She was the daughter of the late Mitchell Neal Oakes and Ida Jeane Oakes She was a member of the Bible Baptist Church of Hornbeck Miss Lena as she was affectionately known was a life long resident of Vernon Parish She loved garden ing and always worked hard to have a year round productive vegetable garden and to have her yard fdled with beautiful flowers and shrubs Sharing her vegetables and flowers with her family friends and neighbors provided her great enjoy ment and happiness during her entire life She was preceded in death by her husband rank McRae son Warren McRae: brothers Guy Oakes Harless Oakes and Neal Oakes and sister Gladys Oakes Kretchman Survivors include her sons Milton McRae and wife Alice of Shreveport and Ted McRae and wife Errol of Baton Rouge daughter Glenda McRae Coburn and husband Venton of Leesville daughter in law Gwendolyn McRae of Shreveport ten grandchildren William McRae of Charlottesville Va Jana McRae of Shreveport Lisa McRae ulp of Oakton Va Timothy McRae of Minden Derek McRae of High Point NC Debra McRae Danielson Patricia McRae and Molly McRae all of Baton Rouge and Yvette Coburn and Colette Coburn both of Dallas In addition she leaves 13 great grandchildren three great great grandchil dren a large extended family and many frienda Pallbearers will be rank Campagna Steve Danielson John ord Derek McRae Timothy McRae Randall Smith Raymond Smith and Randy Wright Honorary pallbearers will be Christopher Campagna Nicholas Campagna Todd Miller and Richard Proctor Memorials may be made to the Self Cemetery Association the Bible Baptist Church of Hornbeck or the charity of ones choice Words of comfort may be expressed to the McRae family at wwwlabbymemorialcom WANDA SUE DOWDEN DELP uneral services for Wanda Sue Dowden Delp 57 of Anacoco were held at 3 pm Monday ebruary 25 2008 in the Labby Memorial uneral Home Chapel in tLwsville with Dr Joseph i Bathe (Burial fallowed Cfiapel Cemetery in Hornbeck under the direc tion of Labby Memorial uneral Home Visitation was held from 5 pm to 9 pm Sunday eb 24 and from 10 am until time of service Monday eb 25 in the funeral home She passed away eb 23 HUI in her residence in Anacoco after a nine month courageous battle with colon cancer Wanda was born in Hornbeck and was a 1969 graduate of Hornbeck High School She owned and operated Sunseekers Tanning Salon in Anacoco since 1992 Wanda was a beauti ful and loving wife mother sister and grandmother She always loved to travel to the mountains and the beaches Survivors include her husband of 23 years Barney Delp of Anacoco her children and grandchildren Sharon Austin and husband JR and Joshua and Seth Ponthieux of Anacoco Susan Teegardin and husband Brian and Taylor Katie Coral Ariel and Zoey of Rosepine and Billy Wade and wife Katherine and McKenzie and Christian of Bastrop Texas brothers Donald Dowden and wife Glory Mae of Hornbeck Ronald Dowden and wife JoAnn of Leesville Teddie Dowden and wife Sheryl of Leesville and Dan Dowden and wife Vicky of Anacoco sisters rances Parker of Anacoco Connie Brooks of Gillis and Marilyn Merchant and husband Jim of Anacoco and mother Helen Dowden of Anacoco BILL DOYLE uneral services for Bill Doyle 74 of Anacoco will be announced by Labby Memorial uneral Home in Leesville Mi Doyle passed away Sunday ebruary 24 in the VA Hospital in Pineville JAMES BENSON uneral services for James Benson of Leesville will be announced by Labby Memorial uneral Home in Leesville He passed away Monday ebruary 25 at Byrd Regional Hospital in Leesville NINTH WARD Continued from page 1 Green has been interviewed by countless news agencies and film crews since the storm recanting for anyone who cared to listen the heart wrenching story of how he lost his home and two family members in Katrina's flooding And for months his guilty plea went largely unnoticed It until December after the Make It Right project championed Green for their cause that news agencies and Make It Right found out Green had pleaded guilty in April to preparing false tax returns attached to fraudulent home loan applications mini as far back as 2001 HEALTH: Predicting breaks from thinning bones forget the men WASHINGTON (AP) Bone tests just for women anymore New guide lines are calling for older men to get a routine check for bone thinning osteoporosis There's news for women too: A new computerized tool uses more than bone density tests to predict who is at high est risk of breaking a bone in coming years by adding in such important risk factors as whether a parent ever broke a hip an effort to better target who really needs treatment and who can safely skip it even before bones become thin enough to be offi cially labeled an osteoporosis patient And it promises a major shift in bone care treat the people who have high risk and you would reassure the women at low risk and ask them to come back for a re check in a few years" explains Dr Ethel Siris of Columbia University and president of the National Osteoporosis oundation which issued the new guide lines last week Moreover the new work stresses that a disease long associated with little old white ladies actually can strike anyone as they age The biggest change: The NO guidelines recommend a bone mineral density ray test for all men 70 and older just like women 65 and older have long been urged to get (Men and women may need the tests sooner if other factors put them at high risk) a recognition more so now than in the past that men are at says Dr Jay Magaziner of the University of Maryland medical school who has long researched hip fractures most feared break misunderstand Postmenopausal women are still at greatest risk of osteo porosis when bone strength ening estrogen plummets But a quarter of hip fractures occur in men and as men live longer the number who break a hip is steadily rising Magaziner told a recent meet ing of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Screening men we do with women can have some real payoffs in terms of pre vention" he says Another conundrum: More than half of fractures due to bone loss occur in people whose bones are thinning but aren't quite thin enough to be labeled osteoporosis They're in a gray zone known as osteopenia In the US alone some 10 million people have osteoporo sis but 34 million are estimat ed to have osteopenia With the population rapidly aging the government estimates half of Americans over 50 will be at risk of fractures from too thin bones by 2020 The World Health Organization funded a Web based tool called RAX unveiled last week that helps calculate the odds of a hip wrist shoulder or spine frac ture within the next 10 years for anyone 40 or older in nine different countries regard less of whether they have full fledged osteoporosis or just low bone mass ATAL CRASHES Continued from page 1 Six of the crashes involved a single vehicle which ran off the roadway Some of those included drivers who either failed to negotiate a curve andor 'j'bver corrected the vehicle A heifthe vehicle left the roadway initially Distracted driving is a major contributing factor in vehicle crashes Only three occupants were LEAP HELP reported to be properly restrained Properly used seat belts and child restraints can improve the chances of sur vival considerably All occu pants should buckle up evert' time and for every ride After all safety can be as simple as one click away Additionally always remember to secure children in properly installed child restraints Continued from page 1 week of March 10 in all pub lic schools in Louisiana Individual results will be released in May Those results calculated with attendance and dropout rates make up the School Performance Scores which will be announced in the fall I Louisiana At A Glance Area Cities Moon Phases UV Index ull eb 21 Last eb 29 New Mar 7 irst Mar 14 ulphur 6536 La(e Charles 6437 New 6339 Monroe 5732 Shreveport 5732 Baton Rouge 6235 A We Celebrate Hometown Lifef Stories for and about hometowns just We yoursj i Look for us each Tue 226 6 High Wed 227 6 High Thu 228 6 High The UV Index is measured on a 0 1 1 number scale with a higher UV Index showing the need for greater skin protection Sat 229 31 5 4 Moderate Moderate ans 1 1 1 MJ 'Lpf jni Today's Weather j' Tue Wed Thu ri Sat 226 227 228 229 31 6234 5839 6954 7355 7354 Mainly Abundant Windy with Consider Occasional sunny High sunshine a mix of sun able doudi showers 62 Winds Highs in the and clouds ness Highs possible NNW at 1 0 upper 50s in the low Highs in the to 20 mph and lows in 70s and low 70s and the upper lows in the lows in the 30s mid 50s mid 50s Sunrise: Sunrise: Sunrise: Sunrise: Sunrise: 6 44 AM 6:42 AM 6:41 AM 6:40 AM 6:39 AM Sunset: Sunset: Sunset: Sunset: Sunset: 6:09 PM 609 PM 6:10 PM 6:12 PM Alexandria 62 34 sunny Memphis TN 44 27 windy Bastrop 56 32 mst sunny Minden 58 31 sunny i Baton Rouge 62 35 pt sunny Mobile AL 64 35 storm Beaumont TX 65 36 sunny Monroe 57 32 sunny Biloxi MS 64 36 storm Natchez MS 60 34 mst sunny Covington 63 35 pt sunny New Iberia 63 36 sunny Crowley 62 36 sunny New Orleans 63 39 storm Dallas TX 55 33 windy Opelousas 65 36 sunny Hattisburg MS 61 32 mst sunny Pilottown 63 40 storm Houma 64 37 storm Shreveport 57 32 windy Houston TX 66 36 windy Slidell 63 33 stoim 1 Jackson MS 54 32 pt sunny Texarkana TX 54 29 windy A Lafayette 63 37 sunny Tulsa OK 47 26 sunny Lake Charles 64 37 sunny Vicksburg MS 47 29 windy Little Rock AR 50 30 windy Winnfield 62 33 sunny National Cities Atlanta 56 29 storm Minneapolis 24 11 pt sunny 1 Boston 41 35 rain New York 45 35 rain Chicago 26 15 snow Phoenix 73 47 sunny Dallas 55 33 windy San rancisco 65 46 pt sunny Denver 46 25 mst sunny Seattle 55 45 cloudy Houston 66 38 windy St Louis 33 23 sn shower Los Angeles 74 51 sunny Washington DC 54 36 rain Miami 82 69 mst sunny One Day Only! 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