Obituaries: James Irving Waller, 1946, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: April 25, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise

J. Irving Waller Dies Suddenly In Monroe April 24

Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Here Friday

James Irving Waller, 49, died suddenly with a heart attack at the Riverside
Sanitarium, Monroe, Wednesday at 4:30 a.m.  He had suffered a heart attack
earlier the previous day and had been carried to the sanitarium.

Mr. Waller, who is employed by the State Welfare Department, Baton Rouge, had
spent Easter holidays at his home in Winnfield, had visited his father in Eros
Sunday, and was planning to attend the State Welfare meeting in Alexandria
this weekend.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete, pending the arrival of Mr. Waller's
daughter, Mrs. Don Thompson, of Springfield, Ill., who is expected to arrive
Thursday afternoon.  The remains will lay in state at Hixson Funeral parlors,
and last rites will probably be held some time Friday.  Rev. Alwin Stokes will
officiate.

A native of Eros, La., Mr. Waller was an employee of the Tremont & Gulf
Railway of Winnfield for fifteen years before joining the state highway
department, with which he served a number of years.  About seven years ago he
became connected with the State Welfare Department.

A World War I veteran, he was a member of the First Baptist Church, Winnfield,
and of the Masonic Lodge, Baton Rouge.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. J. I. Waller, Winnfield; one daughter, Mrs. Betty
Thompson, Springfield, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Holm, Shreveport; one
brother, E. R. Waller, of Baton Rouge, and his father, E. V. Waller, of Eros,
La.