Obituaries:  Oscar F. Sherrod, Sabine Parish       S-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 22, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Oscar F. Sherrod

  Services for Oscar F. Sherrod, 94, were held at 2:30 p.m.,
Thursday, Jan. 16, at Wellman Funeral Home Chapel in Shreveport.
Officiating were Rev. Bill McDonald, pastor of Kings Highway
Christian Church, assisted by Mr. Charles Ravenna. Interment was
in Forest Park Cemetery.

  Mr. Sherrod died Tuesday, Jan. 14, at Schumpert Medical Center.
He was born Jan. 16, 1897, in Tuscumbia, Ala., and moved to
Shreveport, after serving in the U. S. Army in World War I. He
was a retired tie and timber agent for Kansas City Railway for 46
years. Mr. Sherrod was a member and deacon of the Kings Highway
Christian Church, a 32nd degree Mason, and the founder of the
Central Civic Club.

  He was preceded in death by his wife, Flora Belle Sherrod.

  Survivors include two daughters, Joanne and husband Orvis Sigler
of Shreveport, B. J. and husband John Robertson Jr. of Houston,
Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Irene Whitlock of Tuscumbia, Ala., and
Mrs. Martha Crawford of Roanoke, Va.; one brother, Herbert
Sherrod of Tuscumbia, Ala.; five grandchildren, John Sherrod
Robertson Layssard of Converse, Julie Robertson of Lufkin, Texas,
Anne Whittington Lasseigne of Shreveport, Liz Whittington Shaw of
Tyler, Texas; three step grandchildren, Steve Sigler, Sally
Bruer, Susan Templeton; and six great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were Bill Robertson, Kenneth Miller, Jimmy Monk,
Harold Ross, H. T. Traylor, and Hill Harris.