Obituaries:  Billy Laroux, Sabine Parish       L-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 19, 1955
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Billy Laroux

  19 Aug 1955 - Final rites for Sgt. Billy Laroux, 20, who died
in a prison camp in Korea, February, 1951 was conducted at 2:30
p.m. Aug. 15 at Spring Ridge Baptist church with Chaplain Howell
of Barksdale AFB, Shreveport officiating. Interment was in Spring
Ridge cemetery under the direction of Warren Funeral Home with
military rites at the graveside.

  Survivors are his father O. E. Laroux of Shreveport, mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dorsey of Macon, Ga., sisters are Mrs. Margie
Ebarb of Germany, Patsy Sue Laroux of Shreveport.

  Billy graduated from Fair Park High School Shreveport
in 1949. He enlisted in the army soon after. He was overseas five
months when captured. Died in February, 1951.