Obituary of VELTON WOODARD, 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:   November 21, 1957

Headline:  Velton Woodard is Heart Attack Victim at Work Thursday

Velton Woodard, 37, formerly of Jena, but more recently living in Wisner and 
working in Sicily Island as a truck driver for A. B. Chisum, gravel 
contractor, died suddenly and almost instantaneously last Thursday afternoon 
shortly before 3 o'clock while at work.

Mr. Woodard reportedly had started to get out of his truck after arriving at 
a gravel pit for another load when he was stricken.  By the time nearby 
workmen could reach him, he reportedly was dead.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Church of God in Jena, 
with the Rev. J. W. Blow conducting the final rites.  Interment followed in 
Hair Cemetery under the direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mr. Woodard is survived by his mother, Mrs. LaVella Woodard of Jena; a son, 
Ancil of Jena; a daughter, Marilyn Ros of Jena; a sister, Enola Woodard of 
Jena; four aunts, Mrs. Mae McHaney, Mrs. Gertie Benson, Mrs. Gladys Norman, 
and Mrs. Izy Ainsworth, all of Jena, and two uncles, Ferman and Floyd Brown, 
both of Jena.

Serving as pallbearers for the final rites were Oliver Neal, LeRoy Rodriguez, 
Morgan Baker, Dalton Coleman, Woodrow Joy and Ivan Hinson.