Obituaries: Karl E. Stovall, 1970, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 27, 1970 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Karl E. Stovall, Winn Native, Dies August 20

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hawthorne Funeral Home
Chapel, Carthage, Texas, for Karl E. Stovall, 55, who died at 8 a.m. Thursday,
August 20, 1970, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport after
an extended illness.

Officiating was the Rev. glen E. Eckols.  Burial was in Forest Park Cemetery
in Shreveport with nephews David McCarty, John C. Prince, Stephen D. Stovall,
Dr. John M. Stovall, Jr., James Ray Fouts, Jr., Melvin A. Finus Jr., David A.
Ferguson, and James I. Stovall, Jr., acting as pallbearers.

A native of Winn parish, Mr. Stovall was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Stovall, former residents of Sikes.  He graduated from Byrd High School and
attended Centenary College.  He was a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division in
World War II and operated Stovall's, Inc., at Lake Murvaud, near Carthage.  He
was a member of the American Legion and the First Methodist Church of
Carthage.

Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Ha. Whitaker of Carthage and
Mrs. Frank Newman of Bossier City; three brothers, John M. Stovall of Idabel,
Okla., D. M. Stovall of Carthage, and the Rev. James L. Stovall of Lake
Charles; five sisters, Mrs. Curtis Prince of Carthage, Mrs. Alvin McCarty,
Mrs. James Fouts, Mrs. Melvin Finuf, and Mrs. R. A. Ferguson, all of
Shreveport; and two grandchildren, Sheri Whitaker and Leigh Newman.