Obituaries:  Mr. George W. Truett (Pete) (Red) Latham, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       L-350
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 17, 1999
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mr. George W. Truett (Pete) (Red) Latham

  Mr. George W. Truett (Pete) (Red) Latham died Thursday, February
11.

  Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13, at the
1st Baptist Church of Converse, with interment following at
Marthaville Cemetery.

  Mr. Latham was born in Converse, Aug. 20, 1927. He was a
resident of Point Blank, Texas, on Lake Livingston. He graduated
from Converse High School in 1945. Mr. Latham was a member of the
1945 State Championship Basketball Team, and was a four year
letterman at Louisiana Tech., where he graduated in 1951. Mr.
Latham received his Masters Degree from Northwestern State
University in 1962. He taught and coached for two years in
Louisiana, and 30 years in Texas where he retired from Deer Park,
Texas schools in 1986. He was in the United States Army, where he
spent 18 months in the occupation of Japan, after WWII.

  Survivors include his wife, Frankie Dean Rains Latham of Point
Blank, Texas; children, Tina C. Corley of Dallas, Texas, James M.
(Mick) Corley, and Donna Gayle Corley of Houston, Texas, and
Kayla J. Langton of Nashville, Tenn., Janna L. Latham of Eugene,
Ore.; two granddaughters, Ashley, and Hanna Hyde of Nashville,
Tenn.; one sister Maybelle Latham Blevins of Shreveport; two
brothers, R. D. Latham of Fort Worth, Texas, and Floyd Latham of
Converse; and many beloved nephews and nieces.

  Huntsville Funeral Home, Huntsville, Texas.