Obituaries: Charles Garner, 1937, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  March 25, 1937 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites For Charles Garner Held March 19

Former Resident of Calvin Succumbs at Home of His Daughter

Last rites for Charles Garner, 85 years of age, who died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. G. P. Long, in Winnfield Thursday morning, March 18th at 5
o'clock with the Rev. G. A. Morgan, Methodist pastor, Rev. Alwin Stokes,
Presbyterian minister, and Rev. B. C. Land, Baptist minister, officiating. 
Interment was made in the Teagle Cemetery, several miles west of town under
the direction of the Walsh Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were J. E. Carter, W. T. Norman, H. E. Machen, Aubrey Corbitt, L.
F. Morrison, and D. E. Sikes.

Mr. Garner and his wife came to Louisiana from Alabama where he settled in
Winn Parish in 1878.  He and his family lived the greater part of their lives
in Calvin.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. G. P. Long of Winnfield and Mrs. J. T. Jones
of Shreveport, and one son, R. L. Garner of Crowville.