Obituaries:  Sherwood Humphrey, Sabine Parish       H-516
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 23, 1978
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Sherwood Humphrey

  Sherwood Denton Humphrey, 57, of Bossier City, died at 5 a.m.,
Thursday, March 16, in Willis-Knighton Hospital, after a brief
illness.

  Services were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, in the Bossier City
Chapel of Rose-Neath Funeral Home. Officiating was the Rev. Ted
Standley, pastor of Barksdale United Methodist Church, and the
Rev. John Johns, pastor of Pineville United Methodist Church.
Burial was in Forest Park West Cemetery.

  Mr. Humphrey was a native of Bryceland. He was a retired
district business manager for the highway division of the state
Department of Transportation and Development. He was a member of
Barksdale United Methodist Church, Sunset Star Chapter ? CES, and
Sunset Masonic Lodge No. 438 F&AM.

  Survivors include his widow; Mary Catherine Humphrey of Bossier
City; one son, the Rev. Ray R. Miller if Many; six sisters, ?
Emmons, Pearl Waites, ? Greenlee, Vera Holland, and Lucille
Jones, all of Shreveport, and Tressie Walker of Bossier City; two
step sisters, Mildred Roberts of Texarkana, Ark., and Grace Payne
of Jackson, Miss.; one step brother, ? Ellard of Oklahoma City,
Okla.; and three grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were A. A. Ackerson, Walter Fortups, ? L. McDonald,
Tom Denny, Gary Wadsley, and Ed Allen.