Obituaries: Dr. Samuel Clyde Fittz, 1944, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 19, 1944 Winnfield News-American

Dr. S. Clyde Fittz Dies Sunday A. M. From Heart Attack

Funeral Services Held Tuesday 4:30 p.m. At Family Residence

Funeral services for Dr. Samuel Clyde Fittz, who died suddenly Sunday morning
following a heart attack, were held Tuesday afternoon at four-thirty o'clock
at the family residence located one mile from town on highway 167.  Rev.
Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and interment was made
in the Winnfield Cemetery.

Dr. Fittz attended to all his duties Saturday apparently feeling good and in
the best of health.  A few minutes before leaving his office Saturday
afternoon he suffered a mild heart attack with recurrences on Sunday morning. 
He died about nine o'clock that morning.

He was born December 15, 1880 near Montgomery in Winn Parish and was the son
of the late Eben L. Fittz and Mrs. Malce Octavia Fittz.  He attended the
public schools of his community and later attended Tulane Medical School from
where he graduated in 1907.  After serving his internship at Charity hospital
in Shreveport he began the practice of medicine in Winnfield.  About 1924 he
and Dr. J. F. Faith formed the partnership of Fittz and Faith, and established
a clinic over the Phoenix Drug Store, the first of its kind in Winn Parish. 
In 1940 they built the building now occupied by the firm on the corner of Main
and Jones Streets.

Included in his services to the people of Winn Parish are several terms as
coroner, medical examiner for Winn Parish selective service boards in World
War I and also the present war.  He was interested in farming and because of
that he established a dairy that has grown to be the largest in the parish.

Surviving him are his wife, one daughter, Miss Malce Fittz of Winnfield, and
one son, Lt. Samuel Clyde Fittz, Jr., now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga.,
mother, Mrs. Malce Octavia Fittz, and one sister, Mrs. S. M. Brian of
Winnfield.

Serving as active pallbearers at the funeral services were R. S. Walsh, Clyde
Taylor, Mack L. Branch, Harry Fuller, Jesse Sandifer, Dr. J. R. McCartney,
George M. Tannehill, and Sam Brian.

Honorary pallbearers were Dr. J. F. Faith, Dr. Roy Wright, Dr. John Pugh, K.
A. Thomas, Tracey Harrel, F. L. Shaw, Sr., W. E. Heard, C. McGinty, Sr., P. K.
Abel, B. W. Bailey, Kenneth Watts, A. Leonard Allen, R. W. Buce, W. C.
Cookston, Matt Milam, J. B. Stothart, A. L. Smith, Sr., B. G. Pasco, L.
Rickerson, B. F. Morrison, A. P. Burton, W. T. Norman, Sion Jenkins, Tom
Plunkett, W. W. Allen, J. E. Carter, Bryant Sholars, Shirley Jackson, C. F.
Walsworth, G. M. Walsworth, Frank S. Craig, S. D. Stennis, J. S. Hunt, Lee J.
Grigsby, Judge R. W. Oglesby.