Obituaries: Roy Cookston, 1957, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 8, 1957 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Last Rites For Roy Cookston Will Be Held Friday

Last rites for Roy Cookston of Alexandria, retired Navy Commander, and a
longtime former resident of Winnfield, will be held in Alexandria at Hixson
Funeral Home some time Friday, with burial to follow in the Jonesboro, La.,
Cemetery.

Mr. Cookston died Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. in the Pensacola Navy Hospital.  He
had recently been a patient in the Bethesda, Maryland hospital.  A salesman of
machinery, Mr. Cookston was widely known in this area.  He was a brother of
the late W. C. Cookston of Winnfield.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lois Sullivan Cookston of Alexandria; one
son, Roy Phillip Cookston, Dallas; two grandchildren; two nieces, Mrs. S. R.
Jenkins, Winnfield, and Miss Tillie Cookston, Springhill.