Obituaries: John Boze, 1947, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 2, 1947 Winn Parish Enterprise

John Boze, 93, Buried Here Thursday, 3 p.m.

John Boze, who has no known relatives, died in a Shreveport hospital December
30, after suffering a stroke several weeks ago.  Funeral services were
conducted in Winnfield at the Southern Funeral Home Thursday at 3 p.m. with
the Rev. H. H. McBride and the Rev. Alwin Stokes in charge.  Burial was in the
Winnfield Cemetery.

Mr. Boze, who will be remembered by Winnfield citizens as the aged man with
the long white beard, who walked with one crutch, had lived at the home of
Mrs. Fannie Martin for the past 11 years.  He will be especially remembered by
the Winn Parish Enterprise staff as the donor of $200 to the Winn Parish Rec
Cross drive seven or eight years ago.  During the drive he visited The
Enterprise office at the noon hour and left $100 with an Enterprise employee
for the Red Cross, but would not tell his name.  The next day at the same time
he visited the Enterprise and left another $100 for the Red Cross.  A Winn
Parish Welfare Relief client, his donation constituted two-thirds of the total
parish donations of that particular drive.

A native of Mississippi, he was reared and educated in New Orleans, was
employed as a bookkeeper for a cotton brokerage firm there; later served as
sheriff or deputy sheriff or Red River Parish.  His wife was a native of
Verda, La., which accounted for his presence in this section.  His only known
relative, a sister, died in California several years ago.