Obituaries:  Columbas Nash Cade, Sabine Parish       C-300
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 17, 1945
Submitted by: Tammy Larche
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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Columbas Nash Cade

  17 Aug 1945 - Last rites for Ensign Columbas Nash Cade, age 21
years, will be held 11 o'clock Thursday morning from Zion Hill
Baptist church, Negreet cemetery. Massingill funeral home
directing.

  Surviving are parents: Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Cade, Robeline; three
sisters, Mrs. U. W. Smith and Miss Marguerite Cade, Robeline;
Mrs. Leon Lultrell; Shreveport; two brothers, S. H. Cade,
Robeline, Lt. H. A. Cade, U. S. navy overseas.

  Ensign Cade was killed Thursday night, Aug. 9, in a plane crash
over Miami, Fla. He finished high school in 1940 in Benton, was
employed by Atlas Oil company, Shreveport, until he joined the
navy in 1943. He received his wings July 4, 1945, at Corpus
Christi, Texas and was stationed in Florida awaiting overseas
assignment.