Obituaries:  Orland O. Dodson Jr., Sabine Parish       D-325
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 14, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Orland O. Dodson Jr.

  Services for Orland O. Dodson Jr., 61, of Shreveport, were held
at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 14, at the Wellman Funeral Home Chapel.
The Rev. J. Fredrick Patten, rector of St. Marks Episcopal
Church, officiated. Graveside services were at 2 p.m., at Salem
Cemetery near Plain Dealing, La.

  Mr. Dodson died Monday, May 11, 1987, at Schumpert Medical
Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born October 15,
1925, in Bossier Parish, La., and attended school in Plain
Dealing, and Bradley, Ark., where he graduated from high school
in 1943.

  He studied journalism by correspondence, through the University
of Arkansas, and joined the staff of the Texarkana Gazette in
1943. He worked three years on the Galveston News in Galveston,
Tex., was appointed news editor of Radio Station KGBC in 1947,
and in 1950, became the first editor of the Pasadena Citizen.

  Mr. Dodson became news editor for KWKH in Shreveport in 1957,
and in 1958, entered TV news with WDSU-TV in New Orleans. He
returned to Shreveport in 1960, as news editor for KSLA, and in
1968, became news director at KTBS. He joined the Times staff in
1975, where he was a columnist, and business editor, and
established the Times business news desk in 1980.

  Mr. Dodson was a morning newscaster for Radio Stations KVKI, and
KOKA, and had previously worked as a news editor of KWKH Radio,
and KSLA-TV, and as news director at KTBS-TV.

  In 1983, he was acclaimed one of the top business editors in
America by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and won the
ASNE Distinguished Writing Award for a collection of Business
stories, that explained complex economic issues in layman's
terms.

  He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Dodson; one son, Orland
Dodson III of Converse; two daughters, Deborah Lynn Ingersoll,
and Melissa Dianne Dodson; a step son and step daughter, Ronald
Roy Strickland, and Tina Louise Strickland; three grandchildren;
a brother, Bobby Earl Dodson; and a sister, Lynn Dobson Pickett.

  Pallbearers will be Kevin Doyle, George Bradley, Danny Scott,
James E. Herndon, John Blanchard, and W. E. Manhein.