Obit: Gamble Carter, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** >From the November 2, 1951 Winnfield News-American City Marshal Gamble Carter Dies of Heart Attack Wed. Ellis Gamble Carter, 52, city marshal of Winnfield for the past several years, died suddenly of a heart attack at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the cemetery here where he was at work with a grop of local citizens. He was operating a mower when he was stricken. His sister, Mrs. S. E. Jackson of Winnfield, was among those with him in the few seconds after the attack and before his death occurred, it was reported. The party was participating in a cemetery clen-up campaign, and it was reported that the marshal apparently became over heated while operating the mower. Born at Calvin on March 22, 1899, he had lived in Winnfield practically all his life. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hallie Bowen Carter,; a son, Gerald Carter, now attending Northwestern State College in Natchitoches; five brothers, J. E. Leon and E. D. Carter of Winnfield; W. S. Carter of Calvin, and C. M. Carter of Jonesboro, and three sisters, Mrs. S. E. Jackson and Mrs. Virgil Williams of Winnfield and Mrs. Dan Lowe of Verda. Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist Church of which he was a member, at 3 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. W. L. Holcomb, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery under direction of Hixon Brothers Funeral Home. Active pallbearers were J. W. Wroten, Louis Sholars, Joe Emerson, Bill Halstead, Emmett Cope, Clyde Taylor, Lewis Jenkins, and Douglas Durrett. Honorary pallbearers were members of the present and previous city police departments, Mayor D. C. Allen, former Mayor Eli Harrell, Jeff Thomas, J. R. Madden, ? A. Richardson, Troy Smith and Members of the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity, of which his son, Gerald, is a member at Northwester College. (Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)