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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
|name=Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin
|name=Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin
(Louisiana historian, professor, and journalist;
(Louisiana historian, professor, journalist;
Compiled ''Twelve Years a Slave'')
Compiled ''Twelve Years a Slave'')
| birth_date=December 7, 1918
| birth_date=December 7, 1918
*1995, selected as grand marshal of the Festival du Courtableau, or Washington Catfish Festival in Washington in St. Landry Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.townofwashingtonla.com/catfish.htm|title=Catfish Festival|publisher=townofwashingtonla.com|accessdate=September 21, 2009}}</ref>
*1995, selected as grand marshal of the Festival du Courtableau, or Washington Catfish Festival in Washington in St. Landry Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.townofwashingtonla.com/catfish.htm|title=Catfish Festival|publisher=townofwashingtonla.com|accessdate=September 21, 2009}}</ref>
*2001, named to the Hall of Fame of the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications in Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit />
*2001, named to the Hall of Fame of the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications in Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit />
Eakin died in 2009 at the age of ninety at her home in Bunkie.<ref name=obit/> Her children donated her extensive collection of documents, diaries, photographs, farm implements, her own notes, and drafts of several historical manuscripts in progress to the Archives of Louisiana State University Alexandria. She hoped that others would continue her research.
Eakin died in 2009 at the age of ninety at her home in Bunkie.<ref name=obit/> Her children donated her extensive collection of documents, diaries, photographs, farm implements, her own notes, and drafts of several historical manuscripts in progress to the Archives of Louisiana State University Alexandria. She hoped that others would continue her research.