Obituaries: Bonner G. Etheridge, 1962, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 28, 1962 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Bonner Etheridge, Wood Contractor, Buried Wednesday

A Winnfield pulpwood contractor, Bonner G. Etheridge, 42, died in a hospital
here Monday night after a four month illness.

A native of Texas, Mr. Etheridge worked as a timber and piling buyer for the
American Creosote Works from the middle 1940s until 1956 at which time he
was employed in Bryceland as a piling buyer.

In 1958 he became a pulpwood contractor for Tremont Lumber Company.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Bonner, Jr., and Kerry; one daughter,
Denise, of Winnfield; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Etheridge, Sr., of
Winnfield; two sisters, Mrs. Zeak Purcell, Houston, Tex., Mrs. Dorothy
Williams, Fort Worth, Tex.; two brothers, Bennie Etheridge, Boulder, Colo.,
and John B. Etheridge, Jr., Beaumont, Tex.

Funeral services were at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Southern Funeral Chapel and
burial was in the Garden of Memories Cemetery.

The Rev. W. L. Holcomb conducted the services.

J. F. Lovell, Jr., Zeak Purcell, Willard Harlan, Jimmy Richardson, Glynn Guin,
and Elmer Marcelles served as pallbearers.