Obituaries: Rev. Willie W. Broadway, 1973, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 14 & 28, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American


Rev. Broadway, 54, Succumbs; Rites Tuesday

Funeral services for the Rev. Willie W. Broadway, 54, of Winnfield were held
at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home here with the Revs.
Charles Haley and Virgle Tingle officiating.  Burial was in Jordan Hill
Cemetery.

The Rev. Broadway died Sunday, March 11, 1973, in a Shreveport hospital after
a short illness.

He was a native of Robeline and a member ob the Beech Creek Baptist Church and
the Georgetown Masonic Lodge.  At the time of his death he was interim
pastor at Cypress Creek Baptist Church.

He had served as pastor in many Louisiana churches including Zion Hill Baptist
Church, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Beech Creek Baptist Church, Crossroads
Baptist Church, and Welcome Home Baptist Church all in Winn Parish, and the
Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in Jena, and Christian Harmony Baptist Church in
Natchitoches.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Jewell S. Broadway of Winnfield; a son,
J. Clint Broadway of Dodson; a daughter, Mrs. Willie Nell Weeks of Goldonna;
a half-brother, Arthur Ray Lambert of Robeline; a half-sister, Mrs. Reky Roe
of Frierson, and three grandchildren.
                                   

Tribute To A Country Preacher by Wanda Cornelius

Willie Broadway passed out of this life today.  Willie who, you say?  Willie
was just a country preacher doing the Lord's work.

It didn't matter that he was ailing.  Willie just carried on.  Last week he
was supposed to preach at a funeral in a little country church.  Willie
couldn't finish his part of the service.  He knew then his time was nigh.

Everybody knows Willie was no saint, not all of his life anyway, and he was
the first to admit it.  Since the Lord's calling, he did everything in his
power to make up for the time he didn't live with for the Lord.

Just a country preacher, he was.  Trite as it may sound, he was a friend, a
good man.  He loved the simple pleasures of life, fishing, eating good food,
loving and helping his fellow man.

Folks around here would say "Willie sure could preach."  And he could.  Not
from a vast amount of seminary-taught knowledge because Willie preached from
the heart.

He comforted the troubled.  "God will take care," he said.  Willie wasn't
just saying it either.  In his honest, unsophisticated way, he spoke the
truth.  God will take care of you, too, Willie.