Obituary of Elmos Ray Franklin, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: October 2004



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Obituary:  Elmos Ray Franklin

Services for Elmos Ray Franklin, age 69 of Clarks will be held at 10 a.m.,
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 from the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Columbia 
with Rev. Ed Smith officiating.  Stanley Doffitt will deliver the euology.
Interment will follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson.
    
Mr. Franklin was born in Olla on September 17, 1934 to the union of
Cicero and Anna Christina Jeringan Franklin and died Sunday, August 8,
2004 at his residence in Clarks.
    
He was a corrections officer with the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center.
He also was a veteran of the Korean Conflict having served in the Marines
and a member of the Clarks Masonic Lodge #382.
    
Survivors include his special companion: Sybil Ballard of Clarks, his 
sisters: Marselene F. Coleman of Hebert, Ruth F. Doffitt of Clarks, Shirley
F. Harris of Jonesville, Carolyn F. Byrd of Clarks, Dorothy F. McCartney 
of Olla and Sue F. Simons of Natchitoches and numerous neices and nephews.
    
Pallbearers will be Stanley Doffitt, Toby Esters, Ryan Ballard, Ray 
Ballard, Joe Clark and Tom Exline.
    
Honorary pallbearers are his co-workers at the Caldwell Parish Sheriff's
Office, his crew at the Caldwell Parish Correctional Center, the members of
the Clarks Masonic Lodge #382, his brother-in-law: Ted Coleman and his
friend, Glenn Barnhill.