Obituaries: Edna Shumate Cantwell, 1972, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 2, 1972 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Final Rites For Mrs. Cantwell January 3

Funeral services for Mrs. Edna Shumate Cantwell, 79 year old wife of Winnfield
City Judge R. D. Cantwell, wee held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 3, 1968 in
the First Baptist Church, with Dr. W. L. Holcomb of Alexandria, former pastor,
officiating.

Burial was in the Garden of Memories Cemetery under direction of Hixson
Brothers Funeral Home.

Serviing as pallbearers were Dennis Shell, Rudolph Foster, James Watts, Sid
Nelson, John W. Teddlie, and Horace Alexander.

Mrs. Cantwell died at 1:35 a.m. Tuesday in a nursing home following a short
illness.  She was born and reared in the Wheeling community and had made her
home in Winnfield most of her lifetime.  She was a member of the First Baptist
Church.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by one son, Leon Cantwell of
Little Rock, Ark.; two daughters, Mrs. J. S. Coombs and Mrs. F. L. Bickham,
both of Shreveport.