Obituaries:Olen L. Wise M.D.
Submitter:Carolyn P. Avery Dec 2001
Source:West Carroll Gazette  13 Sept 1945





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              LAST RITES SUNDAY FOR DR. OLEN L. WISE

Last rites were held Sunday afternoon from the Forest Baptist Church
for Dr. Olen L. Wise, 62, West Carroll coroner since April, 1944, and 
a practicing physician in the paarish, with residence at Forest, since 
1930, who died Friday in a Monroe sanitarium, following a major 
operation. The Revs. Grant Clark, pastor of the Forest Church of 
which Dr. Wise was a member, and Paul Elledge, former pastor of Lake
Providence, officiated during the rites.  Interment was in the "new"
Forest cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral home of 
Rayville.

Dr. Wise, besides being coroner, was acting sheriff at the death of
Sheriff W. E. Smith in November 1944, until the election of the 
present sheriff, J.R. Butler, in Januaary, this year. His rites
were atteneded by several hundred friends and relatives.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eunice Stewart Wise; five daughters,
Mrs. Albert Lockard of Forest, Mrs. Odell Beaty of San Antonio, Texas,
Mrs. Roy McGregor of San Antonio, Mrs. Lynn Lord of St. Joseph, and 
Martha Wise of Forest; one son, Olen L. Wise Jr. of Forest; one brother
Ivan Wise of Bienville; three sisters, Mrs. Clemmie Boydston and Mrs. 
Aurilla Wise of Rockwood, Texas, and Mrs. J.W. Beck of Vienna; nine 
grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were: Homer Wise, Dayton Wise, Crockett Wise, Wess
Wise, Dave Pearce, Edmond Smith, B.J. Abney, and J.W. Alsbrooks.

Honorary pallbearers were: Drs. W.K. Evans, D.W. Kelly, E.D. Butler,
J.J. Fiske, A.d. Tisddale, W.F. Everett, Lorenz and Shelton Teer, 
Gillespie, Hammond, Jones, and Huckaby.

A native of Linclon parish, born in Sheron community February 7, 1883.
Dr. Wise was a practicing physician at Hico and Bienville before moving 
to West Carroll. He received his M.D. degree in Memphis, Tenn. in 
1910, after attending Louisiana State University.