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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1967
Page
7
Obituary notices list Albert H. Brown 82 of Bastrop and Alice Burns Parker 91 of Haynesville, with service details. Also reported are Hugh D. Fairly 52, Mark Crawford Murphy infant, Fred B. Wilder 67, and Mrs Ella Mae Brazzeal 75 with burial plans and survivor rosters.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Bessie Lee McCraney 71 at Southern Funeral Home with burial at Midway Cemetery after a lengthy illness in Jackson Parish Hospital. Survivors include seven daughters and one son with relatives across Louisiana Arkansas and Wisconsin. Roy Lee Hightower 69 of Junction City died after a lengthy illness. Burial followed at Rose Lawn Bailey Funeral Home. Ike Goldstein 74 retired insurer died unexpectedly at home. Services were at Spears Funeral Home with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery El Dorado Ark. He was a Mason Shriner WWI veteran and husband of listed survivors.
The Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club held its annual Christmas party at the Shrine Club on Cheniere Lake in West Monroe. O. L. Stewart presented a $10,000 check to Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children via John Morton. A plaque from Dragon Oasis Shrine Club of Hong Kong was given to Congressman Otto E. Passman for his work with the Hong Kong Club.
U S Army Spec 4 James Cummings of Whit Plains New York and his wife Mary Lou were to spend Christmas leave in Hawaii but the Army announced he is under investigation for a serious infraction of military law The Article 32 inquiry will decide if he will stand trial The leave cancellation was conveyed to his wife by Red Cross and sponsored by Levy Tuchinsky Post 41 in Brooklyn backing the 1st Air Cavalry Division unit.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey assigned to lead the administration’s opposition to Eugene J. McCarthy’s challenge to President Johnson in 1968. He will handle traveling, speeches, and frontline campaigning, while Johnson stays in the background. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. named Rockefeller as the only Republican who could defeat Johnson, in an AP interview.
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