Obituaries:  Judge Albin Lassiter, Sabine Parish       L-236
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 6, 1972
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 


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Judge Albin Lassiter

  Judge Albin Lassiter, of Louisiana's 4th Judicial District, died
Monday, shortly after collapsing in court in Bastrop.

  Lassiter, 66, was stricken in the Morehouse Parish Courthouse. He
was pronounced dead on arrival at a Monroe hospital. He had a history
of heart trouble.

  The district attorney for Morehouse and Ouachita parishes for 14
years, Lassiter was appointed by Gov. John J. McKeithen in 1970, to
succeed Judge Jesse Heard, who moved to the 2nd Circuit Court of
Appeals.

  In his last statewide election, Lassiter won the right to remain on
the bench until later this year, when he would have had to run for a
full six-year term.

  Funeral services were held Wednesday morning in Monroe.

  Judge Lassiter was the father of the Rev. Perry Lassiter, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Many.