Obituaries: Tech. Sgt. Herbert P. Cogley, 1947, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 13, 1947 Winn Parish Enterprise

Military Rites Held Today For Tech Sgt. Cogley

Military rites were conducted here today for Tech Sergeant Herbert P. Cogley,
Jr., 26, who was fatally shot last Thursday while on a hunting trip near the
U. S. Marine Base at Parish Island, South Carolina, where he was stationed.

Services were in charge of Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church.  Following services at the church, burial was in the Jerusalem
Cemetery.  An honor guard from Barksdale Field, Shreveport, participated in
the military rites and provided a firing squad.  Members of the Payne-Johnson
Post, 3800, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Winn Parish, were pallbearers.

Marine Corps Sergeant Fred Cole and Mrs. Cole accompanied the body from Parish
Island to Winnfield.

Deceased was born in Alaska, later moving with his parents to Winn Parish,
where he was reared and educated.  He joined the Marine Corp on October
1, 1938, and during World War II served in New Zealand and then in the
Bougainville campaign and on Guam.

For the past few months he had been stationed at Paris Island and was squirrel
hunting when the fatal shooting occurred.  His body, with gunshot wounds in
the chest, was found along a side road.

Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Shawver, Brusett, Montana; one son,
Herbert David, one year old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Cogley of
Winnfield, and a sister, Miss Alice L. Cogley, Cadet-Nurse at Shreveport
Charity Hospital.

Pallbearers at the funeral were V. F. W. members H. W. Bass, Eli Harrell,
Clinton Allen, Frank Fiorello, Bill White, Kenneth Watts, Newton Forrest, and
C. D. Moss.

Funeral arrangements were in charge of Southern Funeral Home.