Obituaries:  Preston Eugene Wyatt, Sabine Parish       W-300
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jan 25, 1979
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Preston Eugene Wyatt

  Services for Preston Eugene "Gene" Wyatt, 41, of Shreveport,
were at 10 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 18, in the Southside Chapel of
Rose-Neath Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tom Riddel, pastor of
Mid-City Baptist Church, officiating. Graveside services and
burial were at 12:30 p.m., in Old Pisgah Cemetery near
Marthaville.

  Mr. Wyatt died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16, at his home, from a
gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected in the incident.

  A resident of Shreveport since 1952, he was an equipment
operator for Caddo Paving Contracting. Mr. Wyatt was a member of
St. John Berchmans Co-Cathedral, Musicians Local Union 116, and
the U. S. Army Reserves.

  He is survived by his widow, Jo Wyatt of Shreveport; his mother,
Bertie Wyatt of Shreveport; one son, Christopher Loran Wyatt of
Shreveport; a daughter, Kimberly Rachelle Wyatt of Shreveport;
three sisters, Rachael Isbell of Shreveport, Polly Reed, and
Linda Joyce Murphy, both of Keithville; and two brothers, Clinton
Wyatt of Waskom, Texas, and Dewey Wyatt of Shreveport.

  Pallbearers were Tillman Franks, David Houston, H. G. DesMarias
Sr., Bill Jean, Ken Stewart, and Jim Hurley.