Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....CHAVIS, WILLIAM MONROE January 1, 1950
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BASTROP DAILY ENTERPRISE - JANUARY 03, 1950
WILLIAM MONROE CHAVIS

Final rites for William Monroe Chavis, known around Bastrop as "Uncle Bill" were 
held in the Robinson Chapel at 10:30 Tuesday morning. He was 79.

Interment was in the Prairie Grove Cemetery north of Hamburg, Ark, with the Rev. 
Jack Midyett, pastor of the First Methodist Chruch, Bastrop, officiating.

Chavis died at a local clinic January 1 following a three-weeks illness. He had 
been prominently identified with the livestock industry in the parish for the 
past 33 years, having moved into Morehouse Parish in 1917.

He is survived by two sons, Thomas L. of Shreveport and James L. of Mer Rouge, 
two daughters, Mrs. W.C. Hurst and Mrs. Barr Perry, both of Bastrop. Three 
sisters, Mrs. Joe Chadwick and Mrs. Pearl Bozeman, both of Hamburg, Arkansas, 
and Mrs. Ann Atkins and Mrs. Lucy L. Graves, both of Fountain Hill, Arkansas, 
and one brother, Edward Chavis also of Fountain Hill survive.

Pallbearers for the funeral serviecs were Jack Tyler, George H. Goodwin, H. Hugh 
Spier, Eugene Johnson, A.B. Calhoun Jr., and Elmer Stanfield.

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