Obituaries: Kennie Charles Hightower, 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 5, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

K. C. Hightower of Dodson Dies At Age of 81

Kennie Charles Hightower, 81, of Dodson, retired shipping clerk for Ritchie
and Raymond Heard Grocers, died in the Lincoln Hospital at 12 p.m. October 1,
1967 after a long illness.

Final rites were conducted at the Dodson Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Tuesday,
October 3, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Ruston, under direction of
Kilpatrick Funeral Home, Ruston.

Mr. Hightower was a World War II veteran and a member of the Dodson Baptist
Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruby Jones Hightower, Dodson; one daughter, Mrs.
Dorothy Rochelle, and one son, Kenneth Lane Hightower, all of Dodson; his
mother, Mrs. R. R. Hightower, of Ruston; two brothers, Fred S. Hightower of
Monroe and Jack Hightower of Baton Rouge; three sisters, Mrs. Ruby
Higginbotham of Ruston, Mrs. A. L. Swanson of Monroe, and Mrs. Ellis White
of Ringgold; and three grandchildren.