Obituaries: Robert Luther Wilson, 1957, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************


 


From: October 3, 1957 Winn Parish Enterprise

R. L. Wilson, 74, Succumbs; Buried Gorham Cemetery

Robert Luther Wilson, 74, Winn native and retired carpenter, succumbed in a
Winnfield hospital Monday at 11 p.m.

Final rites were conducted at the Laurel Heights Baptist church at 11 a.m.
Wednesday with the Rev. Waynon Mott and the Rev. Eugene Langford officiating. 
Burial was in the Gorhamtown Cemetery under direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

Acting as pallbearers were James Austin Jordan, R. M. Thompson, Elton Mixon,
Louis LaCaze, Cecil Taylor, and Virgil Barton.

The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. R. L. Wilson, Winnfield; a son, R.
L. of Alexandria; four daughters, Mrs. Charles Reed of Baton Rouge; Mrs. Homer
Waites of Shreveport; Mrs. Dollie Berry and Mrs. Lottie Newsom, both of
Winnfield; one sister, Mrs. Annie Trott, New Orleans; nine grandchildren and
seven great grandchildren.