Obituaries: William Claude King, 1948, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 2, 1948 Winnfield News-American

Military Rites For W. C. King Held Sunday Afternoon

34 Year Old Veteran Dies In Monroe Saturday

Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 p.m. for William Claude King, 34
year old World War II veteran of Winnfield, who died suddenly of a heart
attack Saturday morning in Monroe.  Rites were conducted at the Gorhamtown
Church with Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 
officiating, and interment was in the Gorhamtown Cemetery under the direction
of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home.

Pallbearers, all members of the Payne-Johnson Post No. 3800, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, were Mayo Faith, Teal Calhoun, Kenneth Egan, A. E. Garriss,
Charlie Corley, and Lewis Sholars.  A bugler and firing squad from the
National Guard rifle company here conducted military rites at the interment.

The deceased, an army veteran, was employed in the building trades in
Winnfield.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. William King; four sisters, Mrs. Katherine
Warren, Miss Ida Rae King, and Mrs. Gladys Smart of Winnfield and Mrs. Louise
Edmonds of Atlanta; a brother, Johnny King of Winnfield, and two half
brothers; Franklin King and Willard J. King, also of Winnfield.