Obituaries: Earl E. Kidd, 1943, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 14, 1943 Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral Services For Earl E. Kidd Held Here Monday

Earl E. Kidd, 69 year old prominent lawyer and member of the Winn Parish
Democratic Executive Committee, died at his home in Winnfield Saturday night
at 8 o'clock after an illness of several months.

Funeral services were held from the family home at 11:00 o'clock Friday
morning, and interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery.  Rev. Alwin Stokes,
Presbyterian minister of Winnfield preached the services, and Bryant Sholars,
Miley Walsworth, James Erskins, Herman Gorham, C. F. Walsworth, and R. D.
Bevill, Jr. were pallbearers.

A former district attorney for Winn Parish, Mr. Kidd came to Winnfield in 1900
to practice law with J. H. Matthews under the firm of Matthew and Kidd.  He
was a law partner of Julius T. Long, who is now practicing law in Shreveport,
and his last partnership was with Harry Fuller, the present district attorney
for Winn Parish.

He was born at Vernon, La., in Jackson Parish, the son of the late Captain
Edwin E. Kidd and the late Ann Sholars Kidd.  He served as a lieutenant in the
Spanish American War.

Mr. Kidd is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Ray of Houston,
Texas; two sisters, Miss Eula Kidd of Ruston, La., and Mrs. F. W. Vonderheit
of New Orleans; one brother, Thelbert Kidd of Ruston; two nephews, Shelby E.
Kidd and Prentiss Kidd of Baton Rouge.

The out of town people who attended the funeral were Lloyd Rau of Houston,
Texas; Mrs. Gill Smith of New Willard, Texas; Mrs. Ella McDowall and Mrs. Earl
Hughes of Hodge; Mr. and Mrs. Shelby E. Kidd, Florence Ann Kidd, Prentiss
Kidd, George M. Wallace, and Frank Machen of Baton Rouge; Mrs. W. J. Farber of
New Orleans; Mrs. May Murdock of Syracuse, n. Y., Percell Wallace, Mrs. Willie
May Dunlap of Shreveport; Mrs. Hardie Willis and daugher, Valeree Willis, of
Kilbourne, La.; Thelbert Kidd of Ruston; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Moore and son,
Luther, Jr., of Minden.