Obituary of H. P. MINARD, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  June 27, 1935, Thursday

Headline:  H. P. Minard Called by Death at Monroe Sunday Afternoon

H. P. Minard, 61, of Standard, superintendent for many years of the Louisiana 
Central Lumber company there, died at 3:20 Sunday afternoon at a Monroe 
hospital, where he underwent an operation on Thursday.  The funeral was held 
at 4 p. m. Monday at Peters Funeral Chapel and interment was in Riverview 
Burial Park, Monroe.

Mr. Minard was well known in northeast Louisiana, where he had a host of 
friends.  He was born in 1874 in Emporium, Pa., and about 1900 went to work 
for the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company at Grandin, Mo.

From there, about 1909, he went to Clarks, La., where he remained 10 years.  
He was then assigned to the management of the mill of the Louisiana Central 
Lumber Company at Standard.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Daisy Minard, one daughter and three sons:  
Mrs. M. M. Meredith, Ronald Minard, Houston, Texas; R. L. Minard, Standard, 
La., and Marshall Minard, New Orleans.

The active pallbearers wee Elmer Slagle, R. E. Prestridge, Roy Cooper, B. E. 
Zeagler, A. W. Johnson, and C. B. White.  Honorary pallbearers were Dr. J. Q. 
Graves, W. H. Thompson, M. C. Thompson, W. H. Faulk, Dr. S. H. Holloman, Jim 
Monk, John Webb, J. W. Clarkson, Dr. P. H. Mecum, and John Edward Godfrey.

The deceased was a past master of the Olla Masonic Lodge