Obituaries:  J. A. H. Clawson, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       C-425
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 25, 1969
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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J. A. H. Clawson

  Of interest to Sabine Parish residents, will be the death of Mr.
Joseph Albert Hall Clawson, 76, of Mansfield, who died in the
Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport, Sunday, Dec. 14,
after a short illness.

  Funeral services were at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 17, in the
Drewett Memorial Chapel, with the Rev. Patrick Cahill
officiating, assisted by the Dr. George A. Ritchey. Burial was in
the Mansfield Cemetery.

  He was the mayor pro tem of Mansfield, and alderman of
Mansfield, and a retired registrar of voters of DeSoto Parish. He
was the organizer of the Louisiana Registrars of Voters
Association, and was its president for three terms. He organized
the DeSoto Parish Historical Society, a member of the Democratic
Central Committee for DeSoto Parish for one term. He was a
veteran of World War I, having served in the Navy, and two years
in the Army. He was a native of DeSoto Parish, and a member of
the Catholic Church.