Obituaries: Zack R. Lawhon, Sr., 1971, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 11, 1971 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Former Winn Resident Dies In Laurel, Miss.

Funeral services for Zack R. Lawhon, 70, of Alexandria, were held at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday in the family residence in Alexandria.  Dr. Glenn Bryant, Alexandria
Baptist minister, officiated.  Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery in
Alexandria under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Lawhon died unexpectedly at 5 a.m. Saturday, March 6, 1971 at his
residence.

A native of Shreveport, he lived in Shreveport as a youth and later moved to
Winnfield.  Mr. Lawhon played football at the old Shreveport High School and
the University of the South at Swanee (Sewanee?).  Later he officiated at
games.  A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, he was an Army veteran of
World War II.  Mr. Lawhon was the former manager of the Hicks Co. in Winnfield
and was associated with Baker-Lawhon Ford in Alexandria.  He was the retired
president of Lawhon-Baker Wholesale Grocery Co., Inc.

Survivors include his widow; a son, Z. R. Lawhon, Jr., of Houston, Texas; a
daughter, Mrs. Marynell L. Smith of Baton Rouge; two sisters, Mrs. Grace L.
Womack of Alexandria and Mrs. Bess L. Taitt of Chapala, Mex.; a brother, John
E. Lawhon of Shreveport; and eight grandchildren.