Obituaries: Louis Jenkins, 1977, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 16, 1977 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Louis Jenkins

Louis Jenkins, 82, of Winnfield, died Sunday, November 13, 1977 in the local
hospital here after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church of
Winnfield with the Revs. Calvin Phelps, Eugene Love, and Charles Haley
officiating.

Burial was in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Winnfield under the direction
of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Winnfield.  Masonic rites were also
conducted at graveside.

Mr. Jenkins was a native of Brookhaven, Miss., a veteran of World War I, a
member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the First Baptist Church of Winnfield,
the Kingdom Builders Sunday School Class.  He joined the Masons in 1924, was
a member of the Winnfield Eastern Star Lodge No. 151, York Rite, Scottish
Rite of Monroe, El Karubah Shrine Temple of Shreveport, and served the Masons
in many capacities.  He was a retired conductor on the T. & G. Railroad.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mary Allen Jenkins of Winnfield; two
brothers, Clarence Jenkins of Winnfield and Warren Jenkins of Doyline; four
sisters, Mrs. Ella Boyette and Mrs. Sherwood Whitten, both of Vista, Calif.,
Mrs. Clara King of Olla, and Mrs. Lavelle Crain of Grayson; four step
grandchildren, three step great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Masons served as pallbearers.