John Crenshaw Halbach

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John Crenshaw Halbach Madison Parish, LA

From The Sikeston (MO) Daily Standard December 7, 1960 and others

John Halbach, city editor of Standard, dies

John Crenshaw Halbach, 28, city editor of the Daily Sikeston Standard died in the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 8 PM Tuesday following a major open heart operation last Thursday.

He was born July 8, 1932 in Memphis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe D Halbach, attended elementary school in Tallulah, LA and college terms at Arcata, California, and Northeast Center College, Monroe, LA

He began his newspaper career in 1954 and had been associated with newspapers and Arcata, California, Tallulah, LA, Vicksburg and Natchez, MS, before coming to Sikeston to join the Standard staff on October 2, 1959.

In 1959, on Easter Sunday, he married Miss Nell Waldrop of Natchez. He is survived by his wife, a stepson, Claude Butler, aged five, his parents: three brothers: Boone Halbach of Tallulah, LA, Joe D Halbach, Jr., Monroe, LA, and Bobby Halbach, Suffolk, Virginia and his grandmother Ms. Ethel Boone of Crawfordsville, Arkansas.

The body will be brought to Memphis where it will lie in state at the National Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are not complete but tentatively, services will be in Memphis.

John Halbach dies; rights set Saturday
Jackson, MS Clarion-Ledger 12-9-1960

Memphis – Funeral services for John Crenshaw Halbach, 28, who died after delicate heart surgery, will be held here at the National Funeral Home Chapel Saturday afternoon. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Halbach died Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had long suffered with a heart condition that indicated corrective surgery, but doctors hesitated to operate until a certain machine for use during the operation could be perfected.

Despite his handicap, he led a very active life and for the last 14 months was city editor of the Sikeston, Missouri, Daily Standard. He had previously worked with the Natchez Democrat, Natchez, Mississippi, the Herald in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and two Louisiana newspapers. While in Vicksburg he was also news correspondent for the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger.

He is formerly lived in Memphis, but attended school in Tallulah, LA, and college in Arcata, CA, and Monroe, LA.

Survivors include his widow, two stepsons, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe D Halbach of Suffolk Virginia, and three brothers Boone Halbach of Tallulah, Joe D. Jr. of Monroe and Bobby Halbach of Suffolk Virginia.

Sports obituary

The Sikeston Daily Standard, Sikeston, Missouri December 10, 1960

Today we pay final rights to another man who has laid aside his weapons of war. The battle has ended in this game of life. Now there is nothing but peace, calm and quiet.

John Crenshaw Halbach was my friend. Indirectly he was your friend also. His weapons in this game were his imagination and a simple typewriter. His life span is written on the pages of newspapers from California to Mississippi and Missouri. He was as dedicated as any newspaperman who ever lived.

John Halbach was no superhuman. He was just a mortal upon lifes field of battle. In a crowd he did not stand out, but he could take the actions of any mass and produce worthy news copy. A 28-year-old family man, John Halbach gave his all.

We will miss John Halbach. Others will miss him too, but who are we to judge. The Lord gives and he takes away.

John Halbach is now working on another newspaper, one that will not go to press for many years. – D. G.