Obituaries:  George Henri Rivers, Sabine Parish       R-162
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 5, 1972
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 




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George Henri Rivers

  Airman Apprentice George Henri Rivers, 17, of Pleasant Hill,
died Monday, Oct 2, at 4:11 a.m.

  Airman Rivers was found in his room in the airman Bachelor
Quarters at Pensacola Naval Airbase, critically ill. An
ambulance was called, but by the time he arrived at the
hospital he passed away.

  Rivers joined the Navy on Aril 26 of this year, and was
attending the Naval School of Photography at the time of
his death.

  Cause of death is believed to be a hypo-sensitivity that
resulted as a side effect of something he had eaten or
drank in conflict with medication that had been prescribed
for him by Navy doctors. An autopsy was performed Tuesday,
but the findings were incomplete at press time.

  The body is to arrive at Warren Meadows Funeral Home
Thursday evening, Oct. 5, and will lay in state there until
services are held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 2 p.m.,
Friday, Oct. 6. Full Military rites will be held in the St.
Joseph Cemetery.

  Survivors include his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
George W. (Jack) Rivers; a brother, Gary; two sisters,
Gloria and Jackie; his paternal grandparents, Geo. W.
Rivers, Sr., and Mrs. Ethel English Rivers, all of Pleasant
Hill; maternal grandparents, M. Gaston C. Barbey, and Helen
Barbey, both of France; his step-grandmother, Mrs. Tulsa
Ott of Pleasant Hill, and numerous friends and relatives.

  Airman Rivers attended Pleasant Hill High School most of
his life, is a member of St. Terrence Catholic Church of
Pleasant Hill; and he was an active member of all youth
activities in the various other local churches.