Roy M. Lisso; Red River, then Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Roy M. Lisso.  Among the public officials of Rapides Parish whip have gained the confidence and 
appreciation of their fellow-townsmen through their whole-hearted devotion to the 
responsibilities of office, one who has also attracted to himself a number of friendships is Roy 
M. Lisso, postmaster of Alexandria.  During his career Mr. Lisso has been engaged in a variety 
of Pursuits, all of which have tended to make him a broad-minded, thoroughly informed citizen 
and have also added to his natural equipment for the discharge of the duties of his position.

Mr. Lisso was born June 2, 1880, in Red River Parish, Louisiana, and is a son of Samuel and Mary 
E. (Phillips) Lisso, the former born at Springville, Louisiana, and the latter at Natchitoches, 
this state.  Samuel Lisso was engaged in the general merchandise business at Coushatta, Red 
River Parish, for a number of years, and was a man of industry and good business ability.  
Through hard work and good management he accumulated sufficient means to retire from business, 
and he is now living quietly at his comfortable home at Alexandria.  During his younger years 
he was active in the affairs of his community, and as a democrat wielded some influence in his 
party.  Always a friend of education, he served as a member of the school board for a number of 
years.  Mrs. Lisso died in 1884.  She bore her husband two sons Paul, who is engaged in the 
automobile tire business at Alexandria; and Roy M., of this review.  The family belongs to the 
Jewish Synagogue.

Roy M. Lisso was given a good educational training in his youth, attending private schools, 
Dyer's University School of New Orleans and Eastman's Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, New 
York.  With this preparation he secured employment as a stenographer with a wholesale grocery 
company at Alexandria, but after several years entered his father's mercantile establishment 
and continued to be associated with the elder man for a long period.  When he was offered a 
position with the First National Bank of Alexandria, he returned to this city, but after 
several years resigned to become manager of a laundry company, an enterprise with which he 
continued to be identified for ten years.  Next he received an appointment as a collector in 
the Internal Revenue Office, at New Orleans, retaining that post for eighteen months and 
leaving it to accept an appointment as acting postmaster of Alexandria, August 17, 1923.  He 
received the permanent appointment January 28, 1924, and still retains the office.  Mr. Lisso 
has given his entire attention to his official duties and has already accomplished much in the 
betterment of the system.  A republican in his political allegiance, he has always taken a 
great interest in political and public affairs, upon which subjects he is well informed.  
Fraternally, he is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.  He is also a 
member of Alexandria Lodge No. 546, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  With his family, 
he belongs to the Jewish Synagogue.

On January 31, 1909, Mr. Lisso was united in marriage with Miss Lillie Donnan, who was born at 
Waco, Texas.  Mrs. Lisso was educated in the schools of her native city and at an advanced 
school at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lisso:  Mary 
Elizabeth, who is attending school at Alexandria.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 216-217, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 

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