YVONNE DOROTHY FELDER ALFORD

Wife of Eulon Alfred Alford, AAFA #0213

1927–2010

Photo from Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home

THE ADVOCATE

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA—Sunday, 3 January 2010

[A nearly identical article was published in The Times-Picayune on the same day.

            Yvonne Dorothy Alford, 82, of Hammond, died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. Yvonne was born on Saturday, June 25, 1927, in McComb, Miss. She graduated from LSU and was vice president of Pi Beta Phi. She was a retired public schoolteacher and a charter member of Immanuel Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir. She was also a volunteer at North Oaks Hospital and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

            Surviving are a daughter, Shirley Alford Brilleaux; son and daughter-in-law, Paul William Alford and Denise Alford; and six grandchildren, Kelly Brilleaux, Nicholas Brilleaux, Katelyn Wheat, Scott Wheat, Sarah Jane Alford and William Patrick Alford.

            She was preceded in death by her husband, Eulon Alfred Alford; parents, Hugh Felder and Grace Gilchrist Felder; sister, Shirley McCollough; and son-in-law, Lee Brilleaux.

            Friends will be received Monday, Jan. 4, at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home in Hammond from 10 a.m. until services begin in the chapel at 1 p.m. Interment will follow in the Felder Family Cemetery in Mississippi. An online guest book is available at www.harrymckneely.com.

AAFA NOTES: SSDI records confirm the birth and death dates of Yvonne Alford (SS# issued in MS), last residence Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, LA.

            Her husband’s lineage: Eulon Alfred 1921 LA¹, Bailey 1875 LA², Marshall Thomas 1839 LA³, John Seaborn 1807 LA⁴, Jacob 1761 NC⁵, Julius 1717 VA⁶, James 1687 VA⁷, John 1645 VA⁸.