Obits:      Roy E. Holstead, Lincoln Par, LA
Submitter:  Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291

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ROY E. HOLSTEAD


CHOUDRANT, LA - Services for Roy E. Holstead, 78, of Choudrant, will be held at 10 AM
Friday, January 5, 2001, at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Raymond Crofoot
officiating. Interment will be in Choudrant Memorial Cemetery under the direction of
Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston.

Mr. Holstead died Wednesday, January 3, 2001 at Ruston, LA following a lengthy
illness.

Mr. Holstead was a member of the Choudrant United Methodist Church. He served during
World War II as a member of the Battery F Anti-Aircraft division of the U. S. Army.
Mr. Holstead was retired from the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's office where he served as
Chief Civil Deputy for more than twenty years.

Survivors are his wife: Helen Green Holstead of Choudrant; daughter: Kathy H.
Deafenbaugh and husband John of Bedford, TX; brother: Rex Holstead and wife Vivian of
Choudrant; grandson: Joshua Deafenbaugh of Bedford, TX; nephew: James R. Holstead of
Niceville, FL; niece: Linda H. Freeman of Choudrant; great-nephew: James Holstead of
Niceville, FL.

Pallbearers will be Jim Holstead, Shelby Green, George Easterling, Gerald Sanderson,
Morton Parnell, and George H. Boyd.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Battery F Anti-Aircraft division of the
U. S. Army.

Family will receive friends from 5 PM until 8 PM Thursday, January 4, 2001 at the
funeral home.

Obituary published on 01/04/01