Obituary, Washington Parish, Louisiana The Franklinton Era Leader
Submitted by Gwen Goff Hobbs, Prepared by Carolyn Brumfield Henderson



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Death Claims Life of John S. Poole  November 14, 1974

Franklinton native, John S. Poole retired employee of Illinois Central
Railroad Company and a long time resident of Monticello, Mississippi died at
his home about three thirty o'clock Thursday afternoon, November fourteenth
at the age of eighty-two, following a long illness.
The body lay in state at the Hartman-Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello until
final rites were conducted at ten thirty Saturday morning, November
sixteenth from the United Methodist Church in Monticello followed by
interment in the Monticello Cemetery.
Rev. Bert Felder, Rev. Kenneth Roberts and Rev. Blanton, of Columbus,
Mississippi were the officiating clergy for the religious rites and active
pallbearers were E. W. Mizell, Clyde Poole, Rev. James Poole, Steve Trotter,
Dan Poole, Larry and Allen Trotter and Earl Rochester, Jr.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Leverette Buford Poole; one son, Ray
Poole, Monticello; one daughter, Mrs. Herman (Frances) Trotter, Newton,
Miss.; one brother, Rev. D. W. Poole, Gulfport, Miss., and four
grandchildren.