Obituaries:  Col. C. H. Lindsay, 1962, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  May 17, 1962, Winn Parish Enterprise-News American

Col. C. H. Lindsay, Former Manager Tremont Lbr., Dies

C. H. Lindsay, 71, a colonel on the staffs of four Louisiana governors,
and a former manager of the Tremont Lumber Company at Joyce, died at his
home in Ponchatoula, La., Tuesday, after an illness of several years.

Mr. Lindsay was credited with bringing the present Tremont Lumber Company
mill to Joyce.  It had been scheduled to be established in another parish.

Lindsay retired in 1955 as vice president and general manager of Louisiana
Cypress Lumber Co. in Ponchatoula, after 50 years with the company.  He
had previously lived in Rochelle, Winnfield, and Joyce, managing company
property in each place.  He had started out as a water boy.

Lindsay was an honorary colonel on the staffs of Louisiana Govs. Sam
Jones, Jimmie H. Davis, Robert F. Kennon, and Earl K. Long.

He was a member of Eastern Star Lodge No. 151, F. & A. M., and the Royal
Arch Chapter of Masons, Winnfield; a 32nd degree Mason in the Shreveport
Consistory; a Shriner, member of Jerusalem Temple, New Orleans.

Funeral services were conducted at the Ponchatoula Baptist Church at 10
a.m., May 17, with Masonic graveside rites at Ponchatoula Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Hubert Lindsay of Baton Rouge, and
Howard Lindsay, Houston, Texas; three grandchildren; and one great
grandchild.

Mrs. Houston Smith, a sister to the widow of the deceased, accompanied by
Mr. Smith, attend the last rites.