Obituaries: Charles Herbert Gilstrap, Jr., 1962, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 4, 1962 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Chas. H. Gilstrap Is Buried Here Saturday, Dec. 30

Funeral services for Charles Herbert Gilstrap, 52, of Monroe, were held at 10
a.m. Saturday, December 30, 1961, at the Southern Funeral Home Chapel in
Winnfield with Dr. W. L. Holcomb officiating.  Burial was in the Winnfield
Cemetery.

Acting as pallbearers were Harper Terrill, Jim Watts, Welby Willis, Gordon
Bullitt, Hovey Harrell and Raymond Dubois.

Gilstrap, who was in the construction business in Monroe, spent his boyhood
in Winnfield, and moved to Monroe after World War II.  He died Friday in a
Monroe hospital after a short illness.  He is the son of Mrs. Charles
Gilstrap, Sr., of Winnfield.

Besides his mother, he leaves his wife; two daughters, Jerlyn Gilstrap and
Mrs. Jenean Fuller, all of Monroe; two brothers, J. M. Gilstrap of Monroe and
Bill Gilstrap of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. E. E. Nash and Mrs. Norman
Smith, both of Winnfield, and Mrs. A. V. Ratcliff of Minden; and one
grandchild.