Obituaries: Samuel Cecil Stinson, 1941, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 14, 1941 Winn Parish Enterprise

Rites Held For S. C. Stinson On August Sixth

Had Lived In Winn Parish Most of His Life

Samuel Cecil Stinson, age 76, died Saturday night, August 5, at the home of
his daughter in Houston, Texas.  Funeral services were held Wednesday and his
body was sent to Gansville where a service was conducted by Rev. J. W.
Buckner, pastor of the Jonesboro Baptist Church, and Rev. Shows of Calvin. 
Interment was made in the Gansville Cemetery.

Mr. Stinson had lived most of his life in Gansville, Winnfield, and Calvin,
but for the past two years had made his home with is daughter, Mrs. C. D.
Allen of Houston, Texas.

He is survived by four sons, M. H. Stinson, Melville, La., George Stinson,
Washington, D. C., O. T. Stinson, Oklahoma, and Samuel Cecil Stinson, Jr., of
Houston, Texas; six daughters, Mrs. Margaret Mae Allen, Mrs. Josephine
Burger, Mrs. Annie Laura Torlton, and Miss Kathleen Stinson of Houston, Texas,
Mrs. Lucille Rush of San Antonio, Texas and Mrs. Rosalie Borach of San Diego,
Calif.; one brother, Alex T. Stinson, Jonesboro; two sisters, Mrs. J. D.
Puckitt, Jonesboro, and Mrs. James Miller, Dodson.  There are nine surviving
grandchildren.

Active pallbearers at the service were Clarence Chandler, Calvin; H. W.
Stinson, Winnfield; Lige Moffett, Jonesboro; J. P. Lewis, Jonesboro; Marbury
Smelley, Jonesboro; and G. H. Walker, Atlanta.