Obituaries:  Herbert Spencer Wasson, 1967, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  May 11, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American

Last Rites For Herbert Wasson

Herbert Spencer Wasson, 59, native of Winnfield, died in an Alexandria
hospital Saturday, May 6, 1967 at 1:30  p.m. following a long illness of lung
cancer.

Funeral services were held in Kramer Chapel Sunday, may 7, with Rev. Lon
Tyndall, pastor of Horse Shoe Drive Baptist Church, officiating.  Interment
was in Alexandria Memorial Gardens, with employees of Bell Telephone Company
acting as pallbearers.

Born in Winnfield, September 9, 1908, Mr. Wasson graduated from Winnfield High
School and Southern College, Lakeland, Florida.  He was a football coach and
teacher in various schools in Union Parish for 10 years before he joined
Southern Bell Telephone Company.

From 1948 to 1952 he served as district engineer for Southern Bell in Monroe,
and from 1952 to 1958, as district plant manager in Alexandria.  At the time
of his death, he was state construction supervisor and lived at 6307 Manor
Drive, Alexandria.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Golden; one son, John J. Wasson,
and three grandchildren of Alexandria; two brothers, John McBride Wasson of
Atlanta, Ga., and George Wasson, of Little Rock, Ark.; one half brother,
Shelton Wasson of New Orleans; five sisters, Mrs. Ida Finlay and Mrs. Kate
Meador of Olla, Mrs. Laura Henderson of Lompoc, Calif., Mrs. Avis Norris of
Frierson, and Mrs. Eula Curry of Winnfield. He also leaves 15 nieces and
nephews.