Obituary: William Otto Drewett, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL 32526
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Source: Winn Parish Enterprise, September 14, 1939


Short Illness Fatal to William Otto Drewett
Funeral Services Held In Winnfield Sunday Afternoon

   Death claimed William Otto Drewett, 34 years of age, at the St.
Francis sanitarium in Monroe Friday, September 8, 1939 at 7 p.m.,
following a three day illness preceded by a stroke. Funeral services
were conducted at the First Baptist Church in Winnfield Sunday afternoon
with the Rev. Alwin Stokes, Presbyterian minister, officiating. He was
assisted by the Rev. H. H. McBride, Baptist pastor, and the Rev. G. A.
Morgan, Methodist minister. Interment was in the local cemetery.

   Acting as pallbearers were: Glen Anderson, Tom Sanders, Noel Roddey,
Harry Hebert, Hampton DeLoach and B. H. Dyar.

   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Louise Wallace Drewett, and three sons,
Billy, Richard and Jerry; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. U. Drewett; two
brothers, Howard and Harold Drewett, and one sister, Mrs. Otho Long, of
Winnfield.

   The deceased was born in Winnfield October 11, 1905, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. U. Drewett, graduated from the Winnfield high school in
1924, attended Chillicothi Business College, after which he accepted a
position in Monroe, La., where he was employed at the time of his death
as an accountant by the Interstate Electric Gas Company.

   Fourteen years ago he was married to Miss Louise Wallace of
Winnfield, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wallace. They
had three children. He was a member of the Winnfield First Baptist
Church and the Masonic Lodge.