Obituaries: William Robert Carpenter, 1953, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 4, 1953 

Leukemia Victim Is Buried Sunday At Bethlehem

William Robert Cockerham, 11 year old sixth grade student at Calvin High
School, was buried Sunday, May 31, following his death Saturday of leukemia. 
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert S. Carpenter of Bethel Community,
Winnfield, Route 4.  

He had been ill for several months.  The boy was a member of the Bethel Church
of Christ.  Funeral services were held at the Bethlehem Baptist Church with
Rev. Harper, of Shreveport, and Rev. Elton Hughes, of Maplewood, officiating.

Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield was in charge of burial, at Bethlehem
Cemetery.

Survivors are his parents, one brother, Kenneth Carpenter, two sisters, Norma
Jean and Sharon, all of Winnfield, Route 4, his grandmother, Mrs. S. Garrett,
and grandfather, J. M. Carpenter, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were his classmates, Jimmy Ray Martin, Donald Griffin, Melvin
Moore, Alvin Stevens, George Thomas Cloud, and John Milton Price.