Obituary: William Uriah Drewett, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL 32526

Source: Winn Parish Enterprise, Feb 26, 1959
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W. U. Drewett, 79, Succumbs; Buried Here February 24

   William Uriah Drewett, 79, native and life-long resident of Winn
Parish, died Monday, February 23, in a local hospital after a long
illness.

   Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 4 o'clock at the Southern
Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. W. L. Holcomb, Rev. W. R. Gage and Rev.
Hardy Beaubouef officiating. Burial was in the Winnfield cemetery with
the local Masonic Lodge in charge.

   Mr. Drewett was a retired merchant, a city alderman here for many
years, a deacon in the First Baptist Church, a past master of the local
masonic lodge of which he was the oldest member, and was also treasurer,
and an honorary member of the lodge.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Della O. Drewett, a daughter, Mrs.
Nannie Bell Byles; two sons, Howard and Harold, all of Winnfield; five
grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

(NOTE: W. U. Drewett was one of five sons of Rev. Tilman E. and Susan
Francis Martin Drewett. He was born Aug. 9, 1879, and died Feb 23,
1957.  His children were, in order of birth, William Otto, Howard
Oliver, Andrew Jackson, Nannie Belle, and Harold Winford Drewett.)