Obituaries: Charlie S. Smith, 1963, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 26, 1963 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Last Rites For Charlie S. Smith Held Sept. 24

Funeral services for Charlie S. Smith, 82, a retired farmer of Ward Nine, who
died Monday, September 23, in a Winnfield hospital after a short illness, were
held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Big Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Hardy
Beaubouef and the Rev. C. E. Arrington officiating.

Burial was in Jordan Hill Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. 
Masonic graveside services were conducted.

During his lifetime Mr. Smith represented his ward eight years as police juror
on the parish body.  He was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Georgetown Lodge
No. 298, F. & A. M., and of the Shriners of Shreveport.  He had been a member
of the Big Creek Baptist Church  since early manhood.

Survivors include four sons, Lloyd B. Smith of Dodson, Grady and Woody Smith
of Winnfield, and Murray Smith of Baton Rouge; a daughter, Mrs. Otis Machen of
Winnfield; a brother, James R. Smith of Winnfield; a sister, Mrs. Missouri
Dawson of Monroe; 17 grandchildren, and 24 great grandchildren.

Acting as pallbearers were grandsons and grandsons in law, John Smith, Frayne,
Frank, and Glen Smith, M. W. Watson, Danny Ray Steele, Wes Steele, and Julius
Barton.