HELEN JENNIE ALFORD BANKSTON
AAFA #0398
1903 LA – 2001 LA
THE ADVOCATE
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA—Friday, 8 June 2001
Helen Jennie Alford Bankston—A retired school
teacher and a resident of Hammond, she died Thursday, June 7, 2001, at Hammond
Nursing Home. She was 97 and a native of Montegut.
Visiting at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral
Home, Hammond, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and after 9 a.m. Saturday.
Religious services in the funeral home chapel at 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted by
the Rev. Lonnie Wascom. Interment in Lanier Cemetery, Loranger.
Survived by a son, daughter-in-law and
granddaughter, William Henkel Bankston Jr., Gretchen Gerstner Bankston and
Merrill Jane Bankston , all of Baton Rouge; two sisters, Charity Johnson, Lake
Charles, and Lillian McFarland, Houston; and a sister-in-law, Yvonne Alford,
Hammond.
Preceded in death by husband, William Henkel
Bankston ; a grandson, William Henkel Bankston III; three sisters, Haidee
Reeves, Lucille Cole and Mary Cory; three brothers, Clyde Alford, Bailey Alford
Jr. and Eulon Alford; and parents, Bailey and Jennie Brumfield Alford.
She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church,
Hammond.
Photo
from Lanier Cemetery, Independence, Tangipahoa Parish—www.findagrave.com
Permission
granted by the photographer, Cathy Faust
AAFA NOTES: SSDI
records show that Helen A. Bankston (SS# issued in LA) was born 29 Dec 1903,
last residence Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, LA.
We included the obituaries of her mother, Jennie
Brumfield Alford; and siblings Charity Lou Alford Allen Johnson, Eulon Alfred Alford
(AAFA #0213), and Haidee Kathleen Alford Reeves (AAFA #0210) in this Louisiana
Obituaries. We included the obituary of her sister Lillian Alford McFarland in
Texas Obituaries.
She was born in Terrebonne parish, the daughter
of Bailey Monroe Alford and Alice Jane Brumfield.
Her lineage: Helen Jennie 1903 LA1, Bailey Monroe 1875 LA2, Marshall Thomas 1839 LA3, John Seaborn 1807 LA4, Jacob 1761 NC5,
Julius 1717 VA6, James 1687 VA7, John 1645 VA8.
