Burla Estelle Neel, age 75, of 204 Douglass Avenue, DeFuniak Springs, passed away Tuesday night, Jan. 5, in a Pensacola hospital. Mrs. Neel was a natiave and lifelong resident of Walton County.
Survivors include two duaghters, Miss Syble Neel and Miss Wynelle Neel, both of DeFuniak Springs; two sons, Buford Neel of Panama City and Cecil D. Neel of DeFuniak Springs; one brother, D. W. Bishop of Opa Locka, Florida; one sister, Mrs. Melinda Thomason of Crestview; three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 Thursday afternoon, Jan. 7, from the Chapel of the Clary Funeral Home with Rev. W. O. Wilham officiating. Burial followed in the Magnolia Cemetery.
[Source: The DeFuniak Springs Herald, January 14, 1971, Page 5]
[Burial: Magnolia Cemetery, DeFuniak Springs]