Pow Wow at Northeast Louisiana State College Homecoming
Freshmen plan a Pow Wow on the College Union patio to drum up homecoming excitement. They will march in the downtown parade wearing war paint and skirts, and a noon open house at Sandel Library follows events. The Homecoming Queen Shirley Nelson of Bastrop will be crowned with her court, and a dance concludes the festivities.
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Northeast Loute Ann State College
Southeastern
Brownfield
College Union Patio
ATP
Sandel Labrary
Shirley Nelson
Bastrop
Maud
Tower
Pat fPwiner
Sunshine
Miaids
Cher Martin
Pinevalle
Ste Parkereen
Bassper
Catv Gin
Sherrf D Philip
Haynesville
Jon Reason
Alana
Saane
Whetstone Receives Long Service Honor
Whetstone of Monroe was awarded a long service pin for 35 years with the Bell Telephone Company. Pick Henderson, Louisiana general commercial manager, presented the award at a ceremony marking his dedication to the firm.
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Woo Whetstone
Bell ‘Pelephone Company
Monroe
Heo
Pick Henderson
Funeral Rites For Dr Harry Lemert In Monroe
Dr Harry Marion Lemert 46 dean of Northeast Louisiana College Fine Arts died of a heart attack Sunday night in a Monroe hospital. Funeral services set for 3 p m today at Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Dr W T McFadden officiating. Burial in Hasley Cemetery follows. He was active in the Monroe Rotary Club First Presbyterian Church and the Louisiana Music Teachers Association. He served in World War II and earned degrees from the American Conservatory of Music Vandercook College and University of Texas. He is survived by his wife Louise and daughter Lou both of Monroe and his parents in Union Mills Indiana.
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Harry Marion Lemert
Division of Fine Arts
Northeast Louisiana College
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Monroe
W. T. McFadden
First Presbyterian Church of
Mathearn’s
Hasley
West Mon- Pryes
Lemert
Union Mills
Indiana
Lemnert
Ses Peesoin Peranes
Frerrigny
Czechoslovakia
Bronve Stra
Feo
Neartheast
MT. Efe
Dro Lemert
Fare
Aris
American Conservatory of Music
Hieace
Eden
Sian
Vandercook Callere of
Chicago
Toth
University of Texas
George Peabody College
Nashville
Tenn
Army
Edgar Perkins Rites Held for Local War Veteran
Funeral services for Edgar Perkins 33 former Monroe resident were held Monday at Robbins Funeral Home Ringgold. He died Saturday of a heart attack. Burial took place at Wright Cemetery Sikes. Perkins was a World War II veteran who served in the Air Force.
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Ringgold
Edgar Perkins
Monroe
Robbins
Wricht
Sikes
Perkins
Air Force
Funeral rites for Rear Admiral Mayfield in La Jolla
Funeral services for Rear Admiral Mayfield will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Roskranz Funeral Home chapel in La Jolla California. Burial will follow in La Jolla cemetery. He died at his La Jolla home Tuesday after a long illness. A Ruston native he served as an aide to Admiral Malsey in the South Pacific during World War II. He was 78 and survived by one sister Mrs Wand Frown of St. Joseph and two nieces Mrs William Rodriguez and Mrs Allen Scholars of Monroe.
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Drving Flalr Mayfield
Monroe
Roskranz Funeral Home
LaJolla
Calif
Ia Jolla
Willam Rodriguez
Park Ave
Allen Scholars
Fl. Ton. Monroe
Mayfield
la Jolla
Ruston
William Malsey
South Pacific
Wand Frown
St. Joseph
Funeral services held for Joseph Griffith in Quitman
Joseph B Griffith 62 of Quitman died Tuesday after months long illness. Funeral services were Thursday at Quitman Methodist Church with Rev Tiffman Brown Rev SOW Tallos and Rev Tray Garrett officiating. Interment followed in Quitman Cemetery under Southern Funeral Home of Jonesboro direction. Griffith worked for the paper mill at Hodge.
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Joseph ‘Biidon Crriffith
Ouitman
Quitman Methodist Church
Tiffman Brown
Sow
Tallos
Tray Garrett
Griffith
Hodge
Lis
Mirs
Meleland
Monroe
Quatroan Cemetery
Southern Funeral Tleme
Jonesboro, Me
Paper Mall
Quitman Meth
Death of Lenora Jordan 77 Swartz with large local survivors
Lenora Dumas Jordan 77 of Swartz died after a one day illness in a local clinic. She leaves her father Andrew Perkins Bastrop two brothers Dayton Perkins Fort Worth and Carl Perkins Shreveport four sisters Kate White Bastrop Carrie Beaver Pineville Lucille McCarty Dodson Eunice Scroggs Monroe and Lenora Jordan’s two daughters Berta Petagna Monroe and Jack Farmer Swartz two sons Robert Dumas Swartz J V Dumas Jr Houma a sister Emma Thedford Mississippi and several grandchildren Funeral services are set for Thursday at Chatham Baptist Church with interment in Chatham Cemetery under Southern Funeral Home Janesboro first option for arrangements. Additional survivors include son Clifford Moore Little Rock and daughters Seth May West Monroe Thelma Bolton Bastrop sister Ola Davis Chatham four brothers Hassel Warren Elbert Warren Elsie Warren Dee Warren. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until time of services.
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Lillie
Bankie White
Bernice
Union Grove Baptist Church
Here
Hixson Brothers Funeral Home
Monroe
Bob White
Andrew Perkins
Bastrop
Dayton Perkins
Fort Worth
Tex
Carl Perkins
Shreveport
Kate White
Carrie Beaver
Pineville
Lucille McCarty
Dodson
Eunice Scroggs
Lenora Dumas Jordan
Swartz
Mushearn Funearl Home
Sota Eces
Mrs Todd Moore Die in North Hodge After Long Illness
Mrs Todd Moore 64 of North Hodge died about 6 a m today at her son Fritz Moore’s home here after a long illness. She had lived in the North Hodge community most of her life. Surviving are her husband and several children. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the North Hodge Funeral Home.
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North Hodge
Todd Moore
Fritz Moore
Instructor crushed to death in silage ramp accident
A 39 year old African American man, Zenon Afer, died Tuesday in Lafayette Parish when an instructor fell onto the vehicle as it climbed a silage ramp near the city. Authorities described the incident as a fatal accident on the work site.
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Cap
Zenon
Here
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