East Carroll-West Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....Prominent Oak Grove Physician Pinned Beneath Machine November 8, 1934
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West Carroll Gazette- Oak Grove, La. November 8, 1934
  Impressive and sincere ceremony marked funeral services for the late Dr. 
John Luther Kelly, who was fatally injured in an automoble accident early 
Wednesday morning on the Dixie-Overland highway several miles east of 
Rayville, at the American Legion community hut, here Wednesday afternoon.
  The commodious log hut, located in the Oak Grove town park which Dr. Kelly 
had been highly instrumental in having erected, was filled to overflowing with 
hundreds of citizens representing all walks of life and positions in this 
community, the parish, northeast Louisiana and the entire state, who gathered 
to pay tribute to a fellow-townsman. a fellow-Legionnaire, a fellow 
practitioner, widely known and greatly loved by an immense circle of friends 
and acquaintances.
  Rev. Dan C. Barr, Methodist paster of Oak Ridge, Rev. H.B. Hines, Methodist 
pastor of Lake Providence, both life-long associates of the Kelly family, and 
the Rev. Arthur M. Shaw, Oak Grove Methodist pastor, joined the Charles  H. 
Catron Legion post in conducting services.  Each of the ministers spoke 
briefly but with deep feeling.  Wade C. Hampton, Ljegion chaplain, issed a 
prayer.  A special choir rendered  several numbers.
  The casket, flag draped and surrounded by a profusion of foral offering, was 
under guard of the deceased "buddies."
  Hundreds of ex-service men from all sections of West Carroll, Lake 
Providence, Tallulah, Delhi, Winnsboro, Rayville, Monroe, Ruston, Bastrop, and 
other places, and hundred of other friends filed by the casket to view the 
remains.
  Following the services at the Legion home, the cortege, in millitary 
ceremony, left for the Kelly residence here, where the body lay in state the 
remainder of the night.  Friends by the hundreds, white and colored, had 
gathered at the home throughout the night.  Chas. H. Catron Legion men stood 
sentry duty.  The body was accompanied by three state motorcyle officers and 
friends for burial.
  

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