Obituaries:  Charlie Lee Calhoun, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       C-450
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 12, 1956
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Charlie Lee Calhoun

  Charlie Lee Calhoun, 10, a fourth grade student of Carver High
School was accidentally shot in the head last Wednesday morning,
while handling a .22 rifle. He also suffered a fractured skull
when he fell from the back door, after the blast.

  He was rushed to Prothro clinic, and from there to Confederate
Memorial Hospital in Shreveport, where he died at 9:30 p.m.

  Funeral services were held at the Allen Baptist Church in Allen.
Interment was in Allen Cemetery. A program was rendered by the
faculty and students of Carver High School. Eulogies and funeral
oration were by Rev. J. J. Jones, and Rev. J. W. Washington, both
of Pleasant Hill. Music was rendered by the choral group of
Carver High School.

  Honorary pallbearers were James Ray Jackson, Gene Autry Carhee,
Lester Carhee Jr., Jesse Porter, Jimmy Mims, and Robert James
Dykes. Flower girls were his classmates, Mary Frances Simon,
Vernita Holmes, Willie Jean Carhee, and Mary Ann Williams,
accompanied by two boys of his class, Henry Earl Roque, and David
Jackson.