Obituaries: Gordon Crosby Gaar, 1952, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 11, 1942 Winnfield News-American

Crosby Gaar, 62, Dies In Thibodaux Rites Held Tuesday

Native of Hudson Former Teacher Cotton Man In Winn

G. Crosby Gaar, 62, former resident of Winn Parish, died in Thibodaux at 4
p.m. Sunday as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered at noon that day. 
Funeral services were conducted at the Thibodaux Methodist Church at 8 a.m.
Tuesday, and burial, with Masonic rites, was in the Natchitoches Cemetery at 4
p.m.

A native of Hudson, Mr. Gaar received his early education in Winn Parish and
attended Louisiana State University.  He had been employed at various times as
a school teacher and cotton buyer, and at the time of his death was an
abstractor.  He was past master of Eastern Star Lodge No. 151, F. & A. M. of
Winnfield.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Frances Ford Gaar, of Thibodaux; a daughter,
Mrs. Jack Richardson of Thibodaux; three children born to his first wife, the
late Mrs. Anna Virginia Freeman Gaar, including a daughter, Mrs. Harley Womack
of Dodson, and two sons, Billy Gaar of Virginia and Gordon Gaar of Pride, 
La.; a brother, Homer Gaar of Monroe, and a sister, Mrs. C. W. Goolsby of
Hudson.

Pallbearers, all members of the Eastern Star Masonic Lodge of Winnfield,
included Joe Emerson, Sr., W. Warren Allen, Willie James, H. E. Machen, W. U.
Drewett, and J. W. Kennedy, Sr.