Obituaries: Julian Bernstein, 1941, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 7, 1941 Winnfield News-American

Rites Held For Julian Bernstein In Monroe, Jan. 26

Builder of Much of Local Business Section Dies

Funeral services for Julian Bernstein, 73, prominent Winnfield businessman who
succumbed January 25, after nine years of invalidism, were conducted in Monroe
on Monday, Jan. 27, by Rabbi F. K. Hirsch of Temple B'Nai Israel.  The body
was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Monroe.

The son and nephew of one of Winnfield's earliest merchants, he became a
builder of a large part of Winnfield's business district, Mr. Bernstein's
parents were the late Philip and Rosalie Marks Bernstein, and he was the
fourth of their eight children, two of whom survive him, Miss Nettie Bernstein
of Winnfield and Rudolph Bernstein of Monroe.  He was a brother of the late
Arnold Bernstein of Monroe and of Henry Bernstein, a prominent attorney at
Monroe, also deceased.

Julian was born at Montgomery and was educated in the Jackson Boys School
at New Orleans.  For a while he worked as a cotton sampler in Norton's Cotton
Exchange at New Orleans, then came to Winnfield to help his uncle, Morris
Bernstein, manage his mercantile business.  He later sold insurance and dealt
in real estate and oil leases until ill health made him inactive nine years
ago.

Mr. Bernstein was interested at all times in the community where he lived, and
was a constant supporter of public improvements.  He supervised and financed
the construction of the "Bernstein Block", the buildings on the northern half
of Main Street from the old Milam's Style Shop to Morgan and Lindsey's, also
the Pineville Gas Co. office, Carpenter's Store, Holder's Caf‚ buildings.