Obit: George Pendarvis, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the August 5, 1949 Winnfield News-American

Monroe Policeman Formerly of Winn, Shot By Young Wife


The body of George Pendarvis, 34 year old Monroe police officer and native
of Winn Parish, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Monroe by his
wife, was brought to the residence of his father, Will Pendarvis, near
Tullos, Thursday.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Magnolia cemetery two miles east
of Tullos at 
10 a.m. Friday.  Interment will follow in the cemetery.

His wife, Ethel, 24, is being held in the parish jail as a murder suspect.
She was reported calm and quiet Wednesday night.  Police said the shooting
occurred near the intersection of Jackson and Chestnut streets when,
according to Mrs. Pendarvis, she pulled the gun from her husband's holster
and shot him.

She said it was a climax of an argument during which Pendarvis had slapped
her.  

H. T. Ward, Monroe police chief, said yesterday afternoon that the
"finding of an investigation will be turned over to District Attorney Fred
Fudicker, Jr., for action immediately after a coroner's inquest slated by
Dr. J. T. French for Friday at 2 p.m.

Pendarvis died in the Conway Memorial Hospital at approximately 1:05 a.m.,
nearly 58 minutes after the shooting.  The .38 calibre bullet had entered
his right side, emerging hear his left hip.  He had gotten out of the car
and fallen in an attempt to walk up the street.  He was rushed to the
hospital by a fellow police officer who happened to be returning from a
movie with his wife and saw him lying in the street.  He died 25 minutes
after arrival at the hospital.

Survivors are three sons, Toddy, James, and Bob, by a former wife; five
sisters, mrs. Nola Smith of Tullos, Mrs. Berda Long of Tullos, Mrs. Vina
Long of Tullos, Mrs. Joyce McMurry of Goodpine, Mrs. Debeau Lavespeare of
Orange, Tex., and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil Pendarvis of Tullos.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)