St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Garbo, Sam Russell October 17, 1918
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA) Oct. 19, 1918, page 2 & 6
Sam Russell Garbo - Died, at the family residence in this city, last Thursday 
morning at 10:45 o'clock, Sam Russell Garbo, aged 33 years, 2 months and 25 
days. The funeral was held yesterday with services at the Catholic Church and 
interment in the Catholic cemetery.

The sudden death of our good friend Sam comes as a shock, for just last 
Saturday he was going about his affairs as usual and was the picture of health. 
Strong, vigorous and full of thoughts and plans for the future, he seemed tha 
last man whom the Dread Spectre would call home. But the ways of Providence are 
beyond the understanding of mankind. Stricken suddenly with influenza Sunday he 
fell a victim of the malady after complications set in. His strong frame was 
not a match for the sudden onslaught and he died, the first victim in Opelousas 
of the malady.

The deceased was not only well and favorably known in Opelousas but also 
throughout the parish, and it can be truly said that there was no one who knew 
him but that entertained friendship and respect for him. As a man, he was kind, 
genial and charitable, and as a business factor in this city he justly gained 
the respect and confidence of the commercial world, for Sam Garbo's word was 
his bond and his untimely and premature death has caused universal sorrow and 
regret here.

The writer esteemed Sam Garbo and to us he was always "Sam-muel," our pet name 
for this genial and big hearted Italian-American. We never met him yet but what 
he greeted us with a smile and a jovial word and his untimely passing to 
another sphere has given us a jolt no less than that experienced by his loved 
ones. To his wife, little ones, aged father and mother, brothers and sisters, 
The Clarion extends its heartfelt sympathies and condolences in their deep 
bereavement.



page 6: Private Frank Garbo and Seaman Charles Garbo, Jr., came home to attend 
the funeral of their brother Sam. Frank is located at Beauregard and Charles at 
the naval training station at Gulfport, Miss.

Additional Comments:
Note: Sam Garbo's tomb, Section 4, in the St. Landry Catholic Church cemetery 
is gone, as of 07/25/2013 and has been replaced with the dbl Lemelle tomb. His 
tomb was there in 1993 when the cemetery was recorded for “Sous Cette Pierre 
Repose: Tombstone Inscriptions of the Old St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, 
Opelousas, LA” by Susan Burleigh Douget.

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