Obituaries: L. Dow Wardlow, 1948, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 4, 1948 Winn Parish Enterprise

L. D. Wardlow, 72, Montgomery, Buried Tuesday

Funeral services were held Tuesday, November 2, for L. Dow Wardlow, 72
year old Montgomery bank president, who died Sunday, October 31, in the
North Louisiana Sanitarium in Shreveport after a brief illness.  He was well
known throughout Winn Parish.

Last rites were conducted in the Montgomery Methodist Church and interment was
in Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport.  Officiating at the graveside service
were Rev. R. R. Branton of Ruston, and Rev. Guy Hicks, Shreveport First
Methodist Church.

Born December 1, 1876, in McNairy County, Tenn., he was one of 15 children of
James Wardlow and Memphis Caffey Wardlow.  Mr. Wardlow came to Montgomery in
1902 and had been president of the Bank of Montgomery since its organization
in 1903.  He was a member of the Montgomery Methodist Church, was a Mason,
and a member of the Louisiana Bankers' Association.

Survivors include his widow, two daughters, Mrs. L. C. Clanton of Shreveport,
and Mrs. Earl W. Baccus of Dallas; four grandchildren, Barbara and Donald
Clanton of Shreveport, Earlene and Fred Baccus of Dallas, two brothers, F. G.
Wardlow of Montgomery, and Rev. John W. Wardlow of Jacksonville, Texas., and
a number of nieces and nephews.