Obituaries: Charles H. Gilstrap, Sr., 1946, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 6, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise

Charles Gilstrap Burial Held Here Wednesday, June 5

Funeral services for Charles H. Gilstrap, Sr., 62, who died of a heart attack
Sunday night or early Monday morning at Coffeyville, Kansas, were held at the
Southern Funeral Home chapel Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, and burial was
in the Winnfield Cemetery.  Rev. Alwin Stokes, Presbyterian minister of
Winnfield, conducted the services.

Pallbearers were Joe Emerson, Bryant Sholars, Tracy Harrel, Judge R. W.
Oglesby, H. B. Bozeman, and Hasson Morris.

Mr. Gilstrap, a lumberman of Winnfield, had been called to Coffeyville because
of the death of his brother, T. J. Gilstrap, who died of a heart attack
Friday, and who was to be buried Monday.  Sunday night, after arriving in
Coffeyville, Mr. Gilstrap retired at 8 p.m. and his son, Jack, who accompanied
him to Kansas, found him dead Monday morning.  He had been dead for several
hours when found.

For the past 35 years Mr. Gilstrap has been prominent in lumber circles in
Louisiana and has operated a number of both pine and hardwood mills in
Louisiana.  He also was interested in a large mill on the Pacific coast a few
years ago and was the general manager of a mill in the state of Washington
near Bremerton.  At the time of his death he operated a lumber sales office in
Winnfield.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Clara Gilstrap of Winnfield; four sons, W. C.,
Charles, Jr., and Carl of Winnfield and Jesse of Monroe; three daughters, Mrs.
Elton E. Nash and Mrs. Norman A. Smith of Winnfield, and Mrs. A. V. Ratcliff
of Minden; his mother, Mrs. Jesse Gilstrap of Fayetteville, Ark.; two
brothers, William Gilstrap of Fayetteville, Ark., and James Gilstrap of
Coffeyville, Kansas; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Castle of St. Paul, Ark., and
Mrs. Rosa Anderson of Vian, Okla.