Obituaries:  Ernest Edward Salter, Sabine Parish       S-436
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 5, 1984
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Ernest Edward Salter

  Mr. Ernest Edward Salter, 81, of Florien, died Wednesday,
December 28, 1983, at 6 a.m., in El Paso, Texas, while visiting
his children there.

  Funeral services for Mr. Salter were held in the Warren Meadows
Funeral Home Chapel in Many, at 11 a.m., Saturday, December 31.
Bro. Jack Perkins, and Dr. George L. Higgins Jr. officiated.
Masonic graveside services were conducted at the Many Cemetery.

  A native of Negreet, Mr. Salter was a retired safety director
for a drilling company, a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of
Harmony Lodge of Eunice.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Josie Salter of Florien; two
daughters, Gennell Christian, Lake Charles, and Elizabeth Hay, El
Paso, Tex.; two brothers, Norman Salter, Lafayette, and Leon
Salter, Shreveport; six sisters, Mrs. Devonia Willard, Texarkana,
Tex., Mrs. Leona Wright, Shreveport, Mrs. Thelma Davenport,
DeRidder, Mrs. Ruth Lacour, DeRidder, Mrs. Exa Diebel, Houston,
Tex., and Mrs. Juanita Edwards, Many; and five grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were James Kirk Salter, Lee Darby Salter, Richard
Salter, Doctor E. L. Edwards III, J. E. Salter, Jack W. Gardner,
James E. Wright, and Richard Wright. Honorary pallbearers were J.
A. Jordan, Jim Jordan, Donald Jordan, Rodney Jordan, Gerald
Jordan, and William Jordan.