Obituaries: Jeff D. Gentry, Sr., 1938, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American 
Date: January 14, 1938
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J. D. Gentry, 77, Dies From Heart Attack Thursday

J. D. Gentry, age 77, died at his home five miles south of Winnfield at six
o'clock Thursday morning form a sudden heart attack. Mr. Gentry had _____ at
his usual time, five o'clock, and had started a fire in the _____ stove
preparatory to making his morning coffee and as _____ entered or was going out
of the kitchen door he was stricken and fell and it was there he was found a
few minutes later.

Mr. Gentry was a native of Harrison County, Georgia and a member of the
Primitive Baptist Church. He came to Louisiana in 1891 and for the past twenty
years has resided five miles south of Winnfield, engaged in farming.

Funeral services will be held today at Old Corinth Church and interment in the
church cemetery, conducted by the Rev. M. E. Brown of Homer.

Surviving the deceased are his widow, one son, ?. ?. Gentry of Winnfield, and
one daughter, Mrs. Etta Cheatwood of Ruston.