Obituaries: Dr. Andrew Willie Radescich, Sr., 1984, Winn Parish, LA. Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: June 20, 27, 1984 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Article No. 1 (June 20, 1984) Former Local Dentist Dies Dr. A. W. Radescich, 102, of Pineville, died at 2:45 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, 1984 in Woodview General Hospital in Tioga. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Rush's Funeral Home, 3307 Monroe Highway, Pineville, with Masonic graveside services in Winnfield City Cemetery at 3 p.m. Thursday, with Rev. Keith Hill, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating, assisted by Bro. Eugene Love conducting Masonic rites. He was a dentist in the Winnfield area for more than 60 years. Survivors include his wife, Alma Wilson Radescich of Pineville; one son, Will Radescich, Jr., of Winnfield; two daughters, Virginia Campbell of Opelika, Ala., and Sue d'Aquin of Arabi; six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Article No. 2 (June 27, 1984) A. W. Radescich by: Will Radescich as told to Margaret Simmons Dr. A. W. Radescich, a dentist and Winn native who would have celebrated his 103rd birthday on June 19, 1984, died early Tuesday, June 19, 1984, at a Tioga hospital. Andrew Willie Radescich, the son of Andrew Jackson Radescich and Nancy Rogers Parson Radescich, was born in 1881 in a double-pen house of hand-hewn logs on the family farm one and a half miles northwest of Tannehill in Winn Parish. "Doc" or "Tony", as he was affectionately known to his many friends, attended Mt. Lebanon College a few miles south of Gibsland and later entered the Atlanta Dental School in Georgia where he earned a D. D. S., or dental degree, in 1908. He began his dental practice in Dodson and there married the former Miss Lydia Susan Talton. They later moved to Winnfield where they resided on Main Street and reared a family of five children, Andrew Will, Jr., Elsie Irene (Bidder) Berry, Louise May (Weezie) Allen, Nancy Virginia (Ginia) Campbell, and Lydia Sue d'Aquin. Mrs. Lydia Radescich preceded him in death in 1962, followed in September 1971 by Irene and in November 1977 by Louise. Dr. Radescich served his community, parish and state over the years as a city councilman, school board member, and state representative. He joined the Masonic Lodge 289 in Dodson in 1908, transferred to Eastern Star Lodge No. 151 in Winnfield in 1911, and was a Mason for 76 years. He served as Worshipful Master of Eastern Star Lodge in 1918 and was a 32nd Degree Mason, and a member of the El Karubah Shrine of Shreveport. Although he had resided in Pineville for the past 17 years, he retained his membership in First Presbyterian Church in Winnfield where he was an elder. Dr. Radescich was chairman of the building committee when the office building of the Sulphur Lumber Company was donated for use as a church by the Hunt family and renovated as the first church building for the Presbyterian Church. During the 1940s and 1950s, Dr. Radescich served as dental surgeon for 12 years at Louisiana Central State Hospital in Pineville. He retired from his Winnfield dental practice in 1968. On February 4, 1967, he and the former Mrs. Alma White Wilson were married and they resided at 1109 « Berry Street in Pineville until April 1982 when Dr. Radescich entered Hilltop Nursing Center No. 1. Dr. Radescich was the half-brother of the late Mrs. Albert L. Smith, Sr., who was the former Ottis Barnes. Along with the many friends and relatives attending the impressive Masonic graveside services at Winnfield City Cemetery on Friday, June 22, 1984, were Will Radescich, Jr., with his son, Drew Radescich of Simsboro; Lee Berry and family of Benton, La., Mrs. Virginia Campbell of Opelika, Ala., and Mrs. Sue d'Qguin and family of Arabi, La. Mrs. Don (Jaye Lou Allen) Chandler of Winnfield is one of Dr. Radescich's six grandchildren.