Obituaries:  Roger C. Tompkins, Sabine Parish       T-512
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 16, 1978
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Roger C. Tompkins

  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., in the McGuire Funeral
Home chapel in Vivian, for Roger Cue Tompkins, 69, of Vivian, who
died Sunday, in Schumpert Medical Center, following a brief
illness.

  Mr. Tompkins was retired after 23 years of service with Amoco
Oil Company. He was a native of Zavalla, Texas, but had resided
in Vivian for the past 52 years. He was a member of the Pine
Island Baptist Church, and was a veteran of World War II.

  Services were conducted by the Rev. Charles Addie, pastor of the
Pine Island Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. George Coward,
pastor of the Caddo Prairie Baptist Church. Burial was in
Chapelwood Cemetery.

  He is survived by two sons, Cue Dell Tompkins of Vivian, and E.
Ray Tompkins of Plain Dealing; two sisters, Edna Okerson of
Zwolle, and Annie Keen of Houston, Texas; one brother, Lane
Tompkins of Vivian; and five grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were Bill Rochelle, Jim Terry, Verban Hutchinson, C.
W. Shiveley, Jesse Hemperly, and Kenneth McVey.