Obituaries: Elmo Anderson, 1954, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 30, 1954 Winn Parish Enterprise

Elmo Anderson Succumbs At His Home In Calvin

Elmo Anderson, 55, died suddenly at his home in Calvin at 8 p.m. Sunday,
December 26.  He had been in ill health for the past year.  Funeral services
were conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Calvin Baptist Church, with the Rev.
Jewel Canerday officiating.  Burial was in the Bethlehem Cemetery under
direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Acting as plallbearers were Everett Thurmond, Buddy Canerday, Clifford
Carpenter, James Martin, W. E. Carpenter, and Larry Carpenter.

A native of Winn Parish, Mr. Anderson was widely known, having been foreman on
highway construction jobs most of his life. He was a member of the Calvin
Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Bice Anderson; three sons, Phillip, Jerry,
and Pete, all of Calvin; four daughters, Minnie Alice and Beverly, of Calvin,
Mrs. W. C. Colvin of Kilgore, Texas, and Mrs. M. R. Crosby of Grosse Tette,
La.; his father, H. E. Anderson, Calvin; two brothers, Lloyd of Monroe and
George of Orange, Texas; one sister, Mrs. E. C. Goetzman of Picayune, Miss.,
and four grandchildren.