Obits: Woodruff, Griffith, Sample; Caddo Par., Louisiana Submited by: CBTandem@aol.com Date: Sept. 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Bobby J. Woodruff Published on 09/19/2000 The Times--Shreveport, LA SHREVEPORT, LA - Services for Bobby J. Woodruff, 62, will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, September 19, 2000 at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Officiating will be Rev. George Merrill. Burial will be in Forest Park West. The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Mr. Woodruff died Sunday, September 17, 2000 after a lengthy illness. He was a native and lifelong resident of Shreveport, LA. Mr. Woodruff was a retired groundskeeper for the City of Shreveport. He was also a member of Southside Baptist Church and a veteran of the U. S. Army. He was preceded in death by his parents, Melba and Thomas Woodruff and one brother, Harold Woodruff. Survivors are his wife, Frances Woodruff; two sons, Ronny Woodruff and wife, Michelle, Rickey Perot and wife, Tracy; one daughter, Michelle Broadway and husband, Allen all of Shreveport; six grandchildren, Mason Broadway, Nolan Perot, Jonathan Perot, Laura Woodruff, Megan Chamness and Jordan Arnold; and one brother, Michael Woodruff of Dallas, TX. Pallbearers will be Bobby Guy, Rusty Hart, Sugar Stephenson, Wesley Hampton, Johnny Long and Bobby Crenshaw. Honorary pallbearers will be John Erie, Mel Lee and Earl Underwood. Rose-Neath Funeral Home Southside Chapel, 687-1256 ******************************************************************** Polly Webb Griffith Published on 09/18/2000 The Times--Shreveport, LA SHREVEPORT, LA - Funeral services for our beloved mother, Mrs. Polly Webb Griffith, 70, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Officiating will be her son, Charles Alexander. Interment will follow at Grand Cane Cemetery, Grand Cane, LA. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday, September 18, 2000 at the funeral home. Mrs. Griffith was born in Grand Cane, LA, and had resided in Shreveport for the past 5 years. She was a retired accountant with Stewart Enterprises. She is survived by two sons, Charles Alexander and wife, Anita of Allen, TX and George Alexander and wife, Kelly of Grand Prairie, TX; two daughters, Patricia Alexander of Houston, TX and Georgia Smith and husband, Rick of Plano, TX; three sisters, Camille Burgess of Shreveport, LA, Elizabeth Ann Moe of Hot Springs Village, AR and Charlotte Marie Thayer of Memphis, TN; two brothers, James Edward Griffith of Rohnert, CA and Jerry Lamar Griffith of Little Rock, AR; and five grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Charles Alexander, George Alexander, Jr., Rick Smith, Danny Burgess, Lynton Smith and Sandon Smith. Rose-Neath Funeral Home Southside Chapel, 687-1256 ************************************************************************ Philip Key Sample Published on 02/17/2000 The Times-Shreveport, LA PASADENA, CA - Philip Key Sample of Houston, TX and Pasadena, CA, a spirited and aspiring young actor, died unexpectedly Feb. 10, 2000, while at his home in California with his wife, Katya. At 20 years old, he had waged a lifelong battle against congenital heart disease, and the cause of his death was heart failure. Philip was born Nov. 13, 1979, in Shreveport, LA, to Constance Christine and Wilton Wade Sample. He was the grandson of the late Mary Key and Charles Malcolm Thompson of Denton, TX, and Helen Huckins Sample and the late Staunton Brevard Sample of Shreveport. Philip's survivors include his wife, Katya, of Pasadena; his mother, Constance Christine Sample of Houston; his father, Wilton Wade Sample of Shreveport, and his brothers, John Sample, Staunton Sample and Wilton Sample. Other survivors include his aunt, Meredith Key Thompson, Houston; uncle, Charles Philip Thompson and wife, Kay and sons, Woodrow and Scott, Phoenix, AZ; uncle, John Wandel Thompson, San Francisco, CA; grandmother, Helen Sample Rickenbacker, Shreveport; in-laws, Boris and Larisa Khotskaya and Eugenia and Michael Tchainikov and their children Daria, Gleb and Paulina, all of Houston; great-aunts, Constance Key Wandel of Houston and Helen Hobbs of La Jolla, CA, and great-uncle, John Philip Wandel and wife, Priscilla, of Houston. Memorial services were held at 2 p.m., Wednesay, Feb. 16 at Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue, Houston. Interment services will follow on Friday, Feb. 18, at noon at the Greenwood Cemetery in Marshall, TX, with the Sullivan Family Funeral Home of Marshall in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to The Philip Key Sample Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 600 Playhouse Alley, Pasadena, CA 91101.