Obituary of W. W. WHITE, 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:  July 14, 1932

Headline:  W. W. White, Well Known Here, Called by Death Tuesday

Sub-Headline:  Was at One Time Associated with The Jena Times

Monroe, La., July 12 - The funeral of W. W. White, 54, newspaper man 
associated with the West Monroe Citizen, will be held in Pollock, Grant 
Parish, this morning.  His death occurred suddenly at his residence at 307 
Ludwig Avenue, West Monroe, at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.

He was a native of Grant Parish and entered newspaper work on a Winnfield 
newspaper in 1897.  Since then he had been continuously engaged on various 
papers in north Louisiana.

Among the list of newspapers on which he had worked at various times are;  
Independent, Jonesboro; Beacon-News, Rayville; Sabine Banner, Many; 
News-Star, Monroe; and his last position, which he was filling at the time of 
his death, that of associate editor of The Citizen, West Monroe.

He leaves his widow and three children, Mrs. P. O. Jones, Pollock; Ralph 
White, Longview, Texas; and Frank White of Baton Rouge.

A brief service was held at Davis-Lawhead Funeral Chapel at 5:30 o'clock last 
night, with Rev. Louis Hoffpauir officiating.  The body was sent on a night 
train to Pollock.