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This is the obituary for my g-aunt, Lena Moss.

Mrs. Lena M. Andrus, 64, of 712 Sixth St., wife of Van Andrus, advertising director of the Lake Charles American Press, died at 9:15 a.m. today in a local hospital.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday from the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis Boudreaux officiating.

Burial will be in the Sallier Cemetery.

A Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today in the Hammer Funeral Home Chapel.

The former Lena Moss, Mrs. Andrus was a descendant of Charles Sallier, a pioneer in the founding of Lake Charles.

She had held membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Catholic Daughters of America, and was at one time district officer in the Lake Charles Garden Club.

Survivors are her husband; one daughter, Mrs. James Wainwright Jr. of Jackson, Miss; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Moss Vincent, Mrs. Paul F. Carmouche and Mrs. James C. Baker, all of Lake Charles; three brothers, Joe J. Moss of Sulphur and Robert M. and James W. Moss, both of Bayou d'Inde, and four grandchildren.

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