Obituaries:  Osborn L. DeWitt, Sabine Parish       D-300
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 1, 1963
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Osborn L. DeWitt

  Funeral services for Osborn L. DeWitt, age 67, who died Feb. 22,
was conducted at Zwolle First Baptist Church, at 3 p.m., Feb. 23,
with Rev. Earl George, Rev. M. L. Boland, Rev. B. T. Scrivner
officiating. Interment was in Zwolle Cemetery, under the
direction of Warren Funeral Home.

  Pallbearers were C. G. Bullard, J. J. Graves, V. W. Chase, J. M.
Campbell, V. H. Salter, W. O. Wright, James Salter, Roy Sibley.

  Honorary pallbearers were Max Brown, W. W. Holmes, Robert
Pearson, J. M. Isgitt, B. F. Barnhill, R. E. Peterson, and
members of the Golden Age Sunday School Class of First Baptist
Church.

  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ruth DeWitt of Zwolle; sons, Doyle
DeWitt of Zwolle, Edward DeWitt of Shreveport; brother, A. A.
DeWitt of Zwolle; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Fletcher of
Shreveport, Mrs. Edna Sayes of Center Point, La.; four
grandchildren.

  For many years, he was associated with a local lumber company,
and active in civic affairs, and a deacon of the First Baptist
Church of Zwolle for 27 years.