Obituaries:  Dr. O. L. Sanders, Sabine Parish       S-536
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 27, 1961
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Dr. O. L. Sanders

  Funeral services for Dr. O. L. Sanders, age 47, were held last
Sunday, at 2 p.m., at the First Baptist Church of Converse, with
the Rev. J. C. Salley, and Rev. Jerry Schmucker officiating.
Burial was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, under the direction of
Warren Funeral Home.

  Survivors included his widow, Mrs. Rita M. Sanders; one son,
Sidney Sanders; one daughter, Mrs. Elsia Rita Crapanzano, all of
Baton Rouge; father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Sanders,
Pleasant Hill; three brothers, State Supreme Court Justice Joe W.
Sanders of Baton Rouge, Fred, and Frank Sanders of Pleasant Hill;
three sisters, Mrs. Ozzie Lee McIntyre, Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Lola
Mae Dyer, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Sally DeMers, New Orleans; and
one grandchild.

  Pallbearers were Sheriff T. M. Phillips, M. L. Walden, Curtis
Walden, Guy Snelling, Hoyt Dillard, Johnny Murry, Polk Rivers,
and R. J. Stoker. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Sabine
Parish Medical Association, Judge Wm. H. Ponder, Judge John S.
Pickett, and all public officials of Sabine Parish.

  Dr. Sanders died unexpectedly last Friday at his home in
Pleasant Hill, from a heart attack. He has been associated with
the Allen Sanitarium since 1936. He was the nephew of the founder
of the sanitarium, Dr. W. G. Allen. The body lay in state at the
Warren Funeral Home in Many, until noon Sunday, when it was
removed to the First Baptist Church at Converse.