Obituary of J. J. RASMUSSEN, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013

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:  February 6, 1958, Thursday

Headline:  Dr. J. J. Rasmussen, Former Trout Pastor, Dies in Shreveport

Dr. J. J. Rasmussen, Pastor of Noel Memorial Methodist Church at Shreveport, 
and a former pastor of the Trout Methodist Church, was buried Wednesday 
afternoon.

Dr. Rasmussen died in a Shreveport hospital Tuesday.  He was 58 years of age. 
 He was hospitalized last Friday for treatment of a heart condition.  He had 
been in ill health since mid-June of last year and had only returned to his 
pulpit in January.  

A native of Vienna, Austria, Dr. Rasmussen came to the United States in 1922 
to attend Emory University near Atlanta, Ga.  He graduated in 1925, was 
appointed to the pastorate at Gretna and served successive pastorates at 
Delhi, Trout, Bunkie, Mansfield, Minden, Ruston and Lake Charles before going 
to Shreveport in 1951.

He is survived by his wife and one son, John J., Jr., a daughter, Elizabeth 
Anne, all of Shreveport; two brothers and one sister.