OBIT: Col. John Davis Calhoun, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 





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                   The Ruston Daily Leader, 1992
                   Colonel John Davis Calhoun

Services for Colonel John Davis Calhoun  of Ruston, will be held at
3 p.m., Friday,, December 11, 1992 at the First Baptist Church of
Ruston under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston. 
Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery, Ruston.  Visitation will
be from 5-8 p.m., Thursday, December 10, 1992, at Kilpatrick F
Home.

Colonel Calhoun, United States Air Force Retired  died Tuesday,
December 8, 1992, at Schumpert Medical Center, Shreveport after a
lengthy illness.

John was a native of Ruston, born on August 27, 1922, to the late
Dr. and Mrs. Delane Stow Calhoun of Ruston and Douglas Community.

He entered military service in 1941.  In 1944 he graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West Point then served thirty
years as an officer in the US Army Air Corps and later in the
United States Air Force.

His career experiences included earning a Master of Science degree
from Princeton University, serving tours of duty in the Far East,
Arizona, Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and California, and
teaching at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright
Patterson and the US Air Force Academy.

Upon retirement in 1974, he returned to  Ruston with his family and
pursued a variety of personal and civic interests.  His civic
interests included work with the Boy Scouts, the Ruston High School
Booster Club, the Vietnamese Refugee Program Kiwanis, Ruston
Airport Authority, the Lincoln Parish Museum and local and state
politics. His personal interests included extensive genealogical
research, restoration of the Stow Cemetery, and restoration and
renovation of his family farm on Douglas Road.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Jane Cherry Calhoun, his
daughter Ann Davis Calhoun, and his sons John Delane Calhoun of
Raleigh, North Carolina and William Malcolm "Bill"' Calhoun of
Houston, Texas. He is also survived by three grandsons: Andrew
Harper Calhoun, Jonathan Josey Calhoun, and Timothy Davis Calhoun.

Pallbearers will be Glynn Harris, Jedd Lewis, Luke Lewis, Brad
McGuire, Bert Pipes, and Scott Thompson.

Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church of Ruston, the
Rutherford Institute (P.O. Box 7482, Charlottesville.  VA 22906-
7482), or a charity of your choice.