Hazel Green DeWitt

Hazel Green DeWitt

Funeral services for Hazel Green DeWitt, age 93, will be held Saturday, January 31, 2015, at 10:00 A.M., at First Baptist Church in Newellton, La. Reverend Larry Foster, Reverend John Wilkins, and Dr. Scott Byrd will officiate. Interment will follow at Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton.

Mrs. DeWitt was born on July 19, 1921, in Slate Springs, Mississippi, and passed away at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe after a short illness. She was a lifelong resident of Newellton in Tensas Parish and had retired to Lake Bruin. She was a graduate of Newellton High School, a member of First Baptist Church in Newellton, and a member of the Lake Bruin Country Club Ladies Golf Association.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernestine Vance Green and William Lawrence Green. Also preceding her in death were her husband, Sturgis Sprague DeWitt, a sister, Rogenia Green Trotter, a brother, William Lawrence Green, and a sister-in-law, Margaret DeWitt Witte.

She is survived by a daughter, Edith DeWitt Sandoz and her husband, Robert James Sandoz of Lake Bruin, two grandchildren, James Clifton Wilkerson II of Austin, Texas, and Edith Margaret Wilkerson of Atlanta, Georgia, a great granddaughter, Kayle, two step-grandchildren, Stuart Sandoz and Stacy Sandoz Justilian, step great grandson, Chase Justilian, a twin sister, Mabel Green Walker, one sister in law, Ruth Green Richardson and numerous nieces and nephews.

Serving as pallbearers will be nephews, Byron Bailey, Dr. Sidney Bailey, John O. Charrier, William L. Green III, DeWitt Lee Sumners, A. Cecil Sumners, L. Edwards Walker, and M. Roger Walker.

Memorials may be made to the charity of your choice. Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home in Tallulah.

Crothers-Glenwood

Funeral Home

Tallulah, LA