Barbara Miles-Bennett

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January 28, 2011
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Friday,Jan. 28
January 28, 2011
Tuesday, Feb. 1
February 1, 2011

Barbara Lee “Clara Bell” Miles-Bennett, 59, a native of New Orleans, La., and resident of Terrebonne Parish, La., died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.

Clara Bell was a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church.


She is survived by her sons, Rala (Renna) Franklin, Leroy Miles and Chataman (Tabitha) Riggs Sr.; daughters, Barbara Ann (Richard) Moss and Sheba Miles; brothers, Lee (Bernadine), Benjamin, Hurley, John, Alvin (Tammy), Milton (Leona) and Darnell (Claudia) Miles; sisters, Gloria (Louis) Jones, Ruth Payne, Dollie (Homer) Speed, Patricia (Buford) Calloway and Mary Ann Miles; 12 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee Sr. and Ruth Cook Miles; sisters, Esther Lee Miles, Evelyn Miles, Albohare and Rosa Lee Miles Singleton, and Jessie Miles; and grandparents, Evelyn “Eva” and Elijah Cook, and Dollie Miles.

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