Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....CALHOUN, MILBURN E. January 7, 2012
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News Star World - January 11, 2012
MILBURN E. CALHOUN

A bookman, publisher, philanthropist and retired physician, Dr. Milburn E. 
Calhoun died Saturday, January 7, 2012, at West Jefferson Hospital in New 
Orleans following a lengthy illness. He was 81.

Services will be held Thursday, January 12, 2012, at 11:00 AM, in the chapel 
of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe, LA, conducted by Dr. Lionel Crowell 
with interment immediately following at Sibley Cemetery in Choudrant, LA.

Visitation will be from 9:30 AM until service time.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Darrell L. and Mary Crowell Calhoun 
and is survived by wife Nancy Harris Calhoun of New Orleans, sister Gloria 
Calhoun Lee of Calhoun, LA, brother James L. Calhoun of Baton Rouge, daughter 
Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton and her husband Carl Joseph Nettleton of New 
Orleans, son David Harris Calhoun and his wife Sharon Crosland Calhoun of 
Spokane, WA, granddaughters Susan, Leslie, Sophia and Heather, all of Spokane, 
WA, and nieces and nephews.

Born in West Monroe, LA on January 15, 1930, he was a graduate of Ouachita 
Parish High School, 1947, Northeast Junior College, 1949, Louisiana State 
University, 1951, and the LSU School of Medicine, 1955. After an internship at 
New Orleans Charity Hospital, 1955-56, he practiced medicine in Buras for nine 
years, interrupted by two years in the United States Air Force where he 
attained the rank of major. He practiced medicine at Nicholson, Baehr, Calhoun 
Family Clinic in Marrero, LA from 1965 until his retirement in 1997. He also 
served as chief of staff at West Jefferson Hospital. He was a longtime member 
of Oak Park Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and in numerous support 
positions. A lifelong bibliophile, he was a recognized expert on rare books. 
He founded Bayou Books, an old, rare and out-of-print book dealer specializing 
in Louisiana and southern subjects, and in 1961 opened a Gretna bookstore by 
the same name. In 1970, he and family members acquired Pelican Publishing 
Company, a small New Orleans book publishing company that they relocated to 
Gretna. Over the next four decades the company expanded its list of published 
titles from 22 to more than 2000. Today Pelican's books are sold in every 
state and virtually every English-speaking country in the world. With a sharp 
eye for finding books for which there was a strong market, in 1974 he signed a 
contract to publish Zig Ziglar's runaway motivational bestseller See You at 
the Top, which had been rejected by some 30 other publishers. Thirty-seven 
years later the book remains in print after almost 60 printings and more than 
1.8 million hardcover copies sold in more than a dozen languages. He also 
developed the Louisiana classic Cajun Night Before Christmas series which 
today includes some 29 titles with more than half a million copies in print. 
In 1998 he funded the Mary and Darrell Calhoun Recreational Center at the 
Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe, and in 1999 he endowed the one-
million-dollar Mary E. and Darrell L. Calhoun Chair in Pharmacology at the 
University of Louisiana at Monroe. He and his wife established the Milburn and 
Nancy Calhoun Foundation in 2009 to support religious and educational 
activities. Donations may be made to the Foundation at 9 Muirfield Place, New 
Orleans, LA 70131.


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