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Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1959

Page

17

Obituary notices from Louisiana deaths and services

John Wesley Holland 79 of Jena died Tuesday in a local hospital. Funeral at Hixson Brothers Chapel with Rev. John Love officiating. Interment in Jena Cemetery. Survivors include two brothers and two sisters. Robert L. Colvin 45 of Ruston died Tuesday after a short illness. Services at Dubach Baptist Church with burial in Hamilton Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include widow and son, with several siblings. Clara Eppenett Massey 70 of Winnsboro died Tuesday in Monroe. Funeral at Union Methodist Church near Baskin with burial in church cemetery. Survivors include four sons, three half siblings, nineteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Mrs May McClure 65 of Jonesville died Monday in a Jonesville clinic. Funeral at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with burial in New Jon Cemetery. Survivors include husband and three sons.

Jena John Wesley Holland Hixson Brothers Chapel John Love Kelly W. R. Holland S. B. Holland Parhans Lottie Wilson Annie Clark Ruston Robert L. Colvin Colvin First Baptist Church Lincoln Parish Lions Club Dubach Clyde C. Colvin Kentwood Clara E. Massey Winnsboro Clara Eppenett Massey Windeboro Monroe Union Methodist Church Baskin T. T. Edwards First National Funeral Home of Calvin Lonnie Ted Massey Leon Massey Lafayette R. C. Harper Med Burnside Dallas Texas Author Eppenett Olla Luther Eppenett Willie Eppenett Transylvania Ferriday Pleasant Grove Baptist Church May MceClure Jonesville Harold Davis J. O. McNair New Jona Comer Funeral Home Catahoula Parish McClure Mallissie Maxey Winnfield First Methodist Church Staples and Barfield Southern Funeral Home Jordan Hill Cemetery Clarence Maxey Jonesboro George Maxey Oakland Calif Arthur Maxey Baton Rouge Leon Barnell W. L. Morris Taylor Town Miss T. L. Darnell Aurora Colo Jake Box Ely Box Dennie King

California scientists warn warming waters raise shark danger

Marine experts warn that California coastal waters have grown six degrees warmer in two years, increasing the risk from great white sharks. Two men killed in six weeks, authorities fear potential underwater nets may be needed.

San Francisco UPI California Australia J. F. T. Sauer Fish and Wildlife Service Stanford University Pacific J. B. Phillips Fish and Game Department Pacific Grove

College student attacked by shark near Bakers Beach

A San Francisco Bay incident left 19 year old Robert Kogler dead after a shark strike off Bakers Beach on May 7. His swimming companion Shirley ONeill aged 19 earned a Carnegie silver medal for rescuing him from the water. Another diver, 33 year old Robert Pamperin, disappeared last Sunday after a sighting of a large shark seizing his torso off La Jolla, about 400 miles away.

Bakers Beach San Francisco Bay Shirley O'Neill Hero Kogler Robert Pamperin la Jolla Here

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