Obituaries: Walter Henry Breithaupt, 1940, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 13, 1940 Winn Parish Enterprise

Walter Henry Breithaupt, of Minden, died from a heart attack at his home on
Cedar Street at 10:45 Friday evening after an illness of three weeks.  He was
54 years old.

Funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Dannis
Funeral chapel with the Rev. N. E. Joyner, pastor of the First Methodist
Church, officiating, with assistance of the Rev. H. E. Kirkpatrick, pastor of
the First Baptist Church.  Burial was in the Minden Cemetery.

He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Faye Gilstrap, of Winnfield; one
daughter, Mrs. Jules Dupuy of Minden; one sister, Mrs. Turnley Walker of
Alexandria; two brothers, T. A. Beithaupt of Jena and Clyde Breithaupt, of
Phoenix, Arizona; and one grandson, Jules Walter Dupuy of Minden.

Breithaupt was a member of the Baptist Church of Jena.  He held membership in
the Masonic and Eastern Star orders.  Since 1907 he had been employed as an
engineer by the Louisiana and Arkansas railway.