Obit: Dock Chelette, 1950  Grant Parish La
Submitted by Theresa L. DuBois, 665 LeMoine Cutoff Rd., Colfax, LA 71417,
e-mail address: tdu7167108@aol.com.
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Taken from the Colfax Chronicle, January 20, 1950:

Dock Chelette of D'Artigo was hit in the head by a broken sawmill flywheel
Monday night, and almost instantly killed.  The accident took place at the
Foote Lumber Company in Alexandria, where he had been employed for about two
and a half months.

Mr. Chelette, who would have been 40 years old on June 9 this year, was born
in Ward Six and has lived there all his life.  He was a son of the late Amos
Chelette and Mrs. Chelette; his wife is the former Hattie Lee DuBois, also a
native of D'Artigo.  During the war he was in the Army for nine months.

In addition to his wife and his mother, he is survived by two children, Ernest
Ray, 2, and Randall Dale, six months old; by two sisters, Mrs. Acie Traylor of
Verda and Mrs. A.B. Chelette of Lubbock, Tex.; and three brothers, Pete and
Dick of D'Artigo and Pvt. J. D. Chelette, who has been in Japan, and who is
thought to be en route home this week.

The funeral was held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at D'Artigo Church of
God, of which Mr. Chelette was a member.  Services were conducted by the Rev.
U. M. Granger of Jena and by the Rev. Jadie Wright, pastor.  Interment was at
Shady Grove Cemetery.   Pallbearers were J. D. Chandler, Otto Williford,
Herman Worsham, Ellis Fletcher, Gilbert Hattaway, Walter Fletcher, J. F.
Bostick and H. L. Gatlin.