Obituaries: Henry Clay Riser, 1937, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 16, 1937 Winn Parish Enterprise

Publisher of Winn Parish Enterprise Dies After Long Illness

Funeral Services Will Be Held at Family Residence Friday Afternoon at One
Thirty; Interment In Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport

Henry Clay Riser, age 63, publisher and manager of the Winn Parish Enterprise,
died at his home here Thursday afternoon at 2:25 o'clock following a long
illness.

Funeral services will be held at the family residence Friday afternoon at
one-thirty o'clock, after which the body will be taken to the Shreveport,
where it will be interred in Forest Park Cemetery.  Services will be conducted
by Dr. B. C. Land, pastor of the First Baptist Church.

Mr. Riser was a native of Winn Parish, the son of the late H. M. and Anna
Arledge Riser, who lived at Beech Creek at the time of their sons' birth on
April 5, 1874.

Surviving him are his widow, who was the former Miss Ethleen McGhee, five
daughter, Mrs. Vernon Shirley of Austin, Texas, Mrs. B. G. Newton, Pine Bluff,
Ark., Mrs. Norman Hamper, New Orleans, Misses Mary and Ruth Riser; three
grandchildren, B. G. Newton, Mary Sue Newton, and Ann Love; one brother, S. M.
Riser; three sisters, Mrs. Ila Rabney, Mrs. E. O. Lites, and Miss Della Riser,
all of Shreveport.

Mr. Riser has been engaged in the printing and publishing business since his
entry into the business world.  He selected printing as his major subject when
he attended the Louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston, the first year that
school opened.

He with his associate, Joel T. Payne, purchased The Comrade, in 1914, then the
only paper published in Winnfield.  The newspaper and printing plant was
completely destroyed by fire a few months after the new owners took charge,
but within a short period, they secured sufficient equipment to resume
publication.  After some time, Mr. Riser acquired full ownership and changed
the name to The Winnfield Times, which he sold in 1922 to N. C. Dalton.

In 1924 he with his wife, Mrs. Etheleen Riser, as editor, established and
founded the Winn Parish Enterprise, which has been successfully published here
since that time.

Mr. Riser was a veteran newspaper man and expert printer and up to the time of
his death took keen interest in his printing business and the affairs of the
craft in general.