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GEORGE W. HALL HAMMOND - -Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Tho ‘mas Memorial Funeral home chapel for George W. Hall, about 67, who drowned in a creek near ange Road here Thurs ay. Rev. John Galey con ducted the rites, and bur ial was in Richardson Cemetery in Franklinton, La. Mr. Hall was a re tiree farmer and was a native of Winnsboro, Miss. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Ollie Lofton of Ellisville, Miss., and Mrs. Susie Deese of Jordan, Ala.; two bro thers, Norman Hall of Hammond, and Mrs. Red Hall of Ricton, Miss.; two grandchild ren and a number of nieces and nephews. HERBERT CORTEZ SR. PONCHATOULA Herbert Cortez Sr., 61 died in Seventh Ward General Home at 6:25 a.m. today. The body was to be at Thomas Funeral Home in Ponchatoula after 5 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday... in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pon chatoula, with Father W. H. Lever officiating Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery here. Mr. Cortez, a native of Kraemer, La., had been a resident of Ponchatoula for the past 37 years. He was a fisherman and a trapper Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Leoncia Draemer Cortez of Pon chatoula; his father, Oleus Cortez of Thi bodaux; three sons, Her bert E. Cortez of Hammond, Sidney G. Cortez of Ponchatoula, and Gerald J. Cortez, of Denham Springs; five daughters, Mrs. Velma C. Simon, Mrs. Sylvia C. Sterkin, Mrs. Clara C. Harris and Mrs. Rose- Mary CC. Cone, all of Ponchatoula, and Mrs. Marian C. Wicknair of Slidell; seven grandchil dren and three great grandchildren. EUGENE LATO HAMMOND = Ser vices will be held here at 10 asm. Tuesday at Holy Ghost Catholic Church for Eugene Lato 92, who died Saturday evening here. Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. Mr. Lato was a native of Italy, but a longtime resident of Hammond. He was a retired farmer. He is survived by seven sons, Joe, Char lie, Tony, Paul and Alphonse Lato, all of Hammond, and Sam and Nat Lato, both of Gary, and; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Palermo, New Or leans; a brother, Joe Na to, Baton Rouge; 23 grandchildren; 25 great grandchildren, and 8 great-great grand children. The body will be i@ McEneely’s Funeral Home, Hammond, until 9:45 am, Tuesday, T. B. PUGH IV BATON ROUGE Services were held here at 4 poem. Saturday at the St. Aloysius Catholic church for Thomas Bryan Pugh IV, 21, who died Friday at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Interment was in Greenoaks Memorial Park. He was a native of Amite. Dr. Chester A. Wil liams, parish coroner, ruled the death of appar ent suicide. He said the youth had been depressed since he left medical school recently. He shot himself with a .22 caliber rifle last Friday about 9:15 a.m. at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Byron Pugh III, in Baton Rouge. Pugh entered the LSU medical school in New Orleans in September 1963, for the semester, and withdrew from the school Jan. 20. In addition to his par ents, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. An thony Doherty, Miss Beth Pugh and Miss Mary Bry an Pugh, all of Baton Rouge. He attended LSU in Baton Rouge from 1960 to 1963. He was a 1960 graduate of Baton Rouge High School and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon social fraternity at LSU. Rabenhorst Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements, ROY J. HLS PUMPKIN CENTER Services were held here at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Jerusalem Baptist Church for Roy J. Hill, 53, who died last Thurs day morning at Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans. Services were conducted by the Rev. Tilsdale. Interment was in Jerusalem Cemetery. He was a native of Hammond and a resident of Pumpkin Center. He is survived by his wife, the former Lessie Coates, two sons, Larry and Paul Hill, both of Pumpkin Center, a daugh ter, Mrs. Donald Van Veekhoven, of Baton Rouge; seven brothers, Louis Lawrence, Clyde and Tommy Hill, all of Pumpkin Center, Henry Hill of Ponchatoula, Leo Hill of Baton Rouge and J. D. Hill, of Livingston, and by six grandchildren, McEneely. Funeral Home, Ponchatoula, was in charge of arrange ments. L. B. SHAFFETT DENHAM SPANGS Services were held today at ltasm, at the Coly ell Baptist Church at the Frost community near here, for Lawrence Ben nett Shaffett, 53, who died Saturday afternoon at Ba ton, Rouge General Hos pital Services were conducted by the Rev. Harold Miller and the Rev. J.D. Carroll. Buria was in the church ceme tery. He was a native of Denham Springs and re sident of Corbin. He was a member of Pleasen Hill, Baptist Church, Pine Grove, The Hollabaugh-Spin dle Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. He is survived by his father, Ben Shaffett, Frost; two sisters, Mrs. C. H. Carroll and Mrs. Ida Watts, both of Frost; four brothers, Leroy and James Shaffett, both of Baton Rouge; J. D. Shaf fett, Walker, and Eugene Shaffett, Denham Springs, numerous nieces and nephews, and several grand-nieces and grand nephews.
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Hammond Daily Star
Hammond, Louisiana, US
Mon, Feb 03, 1964
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