Obituaries: John Mixon, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 20, 1939 Winn Parish Enterprise

John Mixon of Dodson Succumbs

Last Rites Were Held At Gansville Church Friday

Funeral services for John Mixon, prominent resident of the Gansville
community, were conducted Friday afternoon at the Gansville Church, with Rev.
J. W. Buckner of Jonesboro and Rev. W. T. Strain, of Simsboro, officiating
together with the Masonic Lodge.  Interment was made in the Gansville
Cemetery.

Mr. Mixon was born March 11, 1883, near Gansville, where he lived and worked
during the course of his lifetime.  In 1906 he was married to Miss Ella
Puckett and to them was born one daughter, Mrs. Maurice Gates, teacher in the
Cypress Creek School; however he opened his home to five orphaned children and
helped to bring them up as his own.  He was a member of the Gansville Church
and the Masonic Lodge.

Mr. Mixon had been in ill health for a number of years, although his death
came suddenly Thursday, April 13, 1939.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ella Puckett Mixon, one daughter, Mrs.
Maurice Gates; two granddaughters, Ella Sue and Ada Lynn Gates; three
brothers, A. L. Mixon of Dodson, O. J. Mixon of Winnfield, and C. R. Mixon of
Pineville, besides a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were nephews of the deceased.  Among them were Claude Mixon, David
Mixon, Elton Mixon, of Winnfield; Joe Mixon of Homer, Dan Mixon of Dodson,
Virgil Taylor and Arthur Taylor of Gansville.