Obituaries: William Cody Bevill, 1931, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 12, 1931 Winnfield News-American

Funeral Services For Cody W. Bevill Held Last Friday

Death of Popular Youth Mourned By Entire Community

Funeral services for William Cody Bevill, whose untimely death occurred last
Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in an automobile collision on the
Winnfield-Tullos highway four miles east of town, were held at the family
residence Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.  The Rev. C. C. Wier, pastor of
the Methodist Church, had charge of the services, assisted by the Rev. A. H.
Cullen, of the First Baptist Church, and the Rev. Alwin Stokes of the
Presbyterian Church.  Interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery.  Beautiful
floral offerings and a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends
attested to the popularity of this youth and to the esteem in which the was
held.

Acting as pallbearers were members of the football team and his classmates. 
They were: Jack White Capps, Richard Walsh, Robert Turner, John Brewer, Dudley
Shell, and Harold Dillard.

The deceased was the son of Mrs. William Gordy Bevill and the late W. G.
Bevill.  He was born in Winnfield November 30, 1910, being twenty years of age
at the time of his death.  For the past three years he has been a star
player on the Winnfield Crimson Tiger football team and was captain of the
team in 1930 and had been reelected captain for the 1931 season.  He completed
the junior term in high school this year and was president of his class.  He
had been employed by the Roberts Construction Company about a week at the time
of his death.

Surviving members of the family are: his mother, Mrs. W. G. Bevill, of
Winnfield; one brother, Gordy of Mobile, Ala.; two sisters, Mrs. J. F.
Prudhomme, of Shreveport, La., and Mrs. K. G. Bottachaldt, of Mobile, Ala; and
his grandfather, the Rev. J. W. Vick of Winnfield, and a host of friends.