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Please note I do not what newspaper this ran in. This is from the collection 
of Peggy Rockett.

        Mr. Rudolph Sam Barron

Spearsville, LA - Services for Rudolph Sam Barron, 71, of Spearsville, will 
be at 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 13, 1992, at First Baptist Church of 
Spearsville, with the Rev. James H. Miller and the Rev. Roy Pitchford 
officiating. Burial will follow in the Spearsville Cemetery, under the 
direction of Farrar Funeral Home of Farmerville.
Mr. Barron died Wednesday, November 11, 1992 at North Monroe Hospital 
following a lengthy illness.
He was born August 19, 1921, in Spearsville, where he lived all his life. He 
was a veteran of World War II, a farmer, owned a grocery and hardware store, 
and was employed by Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, in Eldorado, for seven 
years, retiring in 1987. He was a former member of the Union Parish School 
Board and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Spearsville, where he 
served as a deacon and choir member.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lee and Etta Barron, two brothers, 
Hugh Barron and Chester Barron, and one sister, Rosalie Foster, all of 
Spearsville.
Survivors include his wife: Jean Ganaway Barron of Spearsville; two sons and 
daughters-in-law, Lance S. Barron and wife Barbara of Marietta, Georgia, and 
Gregory R. Barron and wife Sallie of Eldorado, Arkansas; one daughter Melanie 
Barron Stephens of Monroe; one granddaughter, Caitlin Elizabeth Barron of 
Eldorado; three brothers, Otto Barron of Dubberly, LA, Varna Barron of 
Farmerville, and Clyde Barron of Spearsville; one sister Mary Gray of Bernice.
Pallbearers will be nephews, Ronald Foster, Paul Mitcham, Jerry Barron, Tommy 
Meeks, Lee Barron, and Scott Barron.
Honorary pallbearers will be Melvin Stone, Jim Rhodes, Danny McGoogan and 
deacons of the First Baptist Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Spearsville Fire Dept., 
the First Baptist Church Parking Lot Fund or the Louisiana Baptist Children's 
Home.

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