Obituaries: Mrs. George W. Gilcrease, 1967, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 25, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Final Rites For Mrs. George Gilcrease Held Here Sunday

Mrs. George W. Gilcrease, who spent most of her lifetime in Winnfield, a
resident of South Jones Street, died in a Shreveport sanitarium Friday of last 
week after a long illness.  She had been a resident of Shreveport 15 years.

Funeral rites for Mrs. Gilcrease who was 95 years of age, were held in a
Shreveport funeral home at 1 p.m. Sunday, and burial was in the family plot in
the Winnfield Cemetery.  Officiating was the Rev. P. M. Carraway, associate
pastor of the First Methodist Church of Shreveport.

Mrs. Gilcrease was a member of the First Methodist Church of Shreveport, and a
former member of the First Methodist Church of Winnfield.  She was also a
member of the Women's Wesleyan Bible Class.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Walter Robert and Miss Sadie
Gilcrease, both of Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Charles M. Bannerman of Shreveport;
three sons, P. G. Gilcrease, Chase, O. E. Gilcrease, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and
John R. Gilcrease of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Williamson,
Shreveport, and Mrs. Arnold Rowe, Jonesboro; a brothers, Bob Lee Rigdon,
Coushatta, and seven grandchildren.