Obituaries: John Horrie Boyett, 1955, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 7, 1955 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held For Horrie Boyett Wednesday, Apr. 6

Last rites for John Horrie Boyett, 54, who died in a local hospital early
Sunday morning, following a heart attack, were held at Welcome Home Baptist
Church, Hudson Community, Wednesday at 10 a.m. with Rev. T. L. Rhymes
officiating.  Burial was in the Welcome Home Cemetery under direction of
Southern Funeral Home.

Acting as pallbearers were Earl Applewhite, John Glynn Jackson, G. D. Babin,
Sonny Brooks, Victor Brinkley, and J. C. Brooks, Sr.

Mr. Boyett was the son of the late Mr. and mrs. J. W. Boyett, pioneer
residents of Winn Parish.  He was a former automobile dealer in Ferriday,
Columbia, and more recently in Winnfield, but owing to ill health he had
retired from active business about two years ago and had lived since at his
home at Tannehill station, five miles north of Winnfield.

His only immeidate survivor is his wife, Mrs. Merle Boyett.  He leaes a number
of uncles and aunts, and a host of relatives.