Obituaries: Ethleen Riser, 1946, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 4, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral Services Held Saturday For Mrs. Ethleen Riser

Editor and Publisher of Enterprise Buried In Shreveport

Funeral services for Mrs. Ethleen Riser, editor and publisher of the Winn
Parish Enterprise, who died Thursday, June 27, in the Baptist Hospital,
Alexandria, were held in the family residence in Winnfield at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning.  The Reverend Alwin Stokes, who conducted the services, was
assisted by the Reverend H. H. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
and Mr. Lynn Browning, pastor of the Church of Christ.  Burial was in the
Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

The pallbearers were Harper Terrill, E. M. Chelette, V. Matt Milam, Norman
Hamner, Durward Love, George Larson, B. G. Newton, Jr., and Alvin Hahn.

Mrs. Riser, a native of Winn Parish, became editor of the The Enterprise
twenty two years ago when she, her husband, the late Henry Clay Riser, and a
group of leading business men of Winnfield established the newspaper.  She
continued to publish The Enterprise after her husband's death nine years ago.

Those who survive Mrs. Riser are five daughters, Mrs. Robert V. Shirley of
Hyattsville, Md.; Mrs. B. G. Newton, Sr., of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Miss Mary
Riser, Mrs. Norman Hamner, and Mrs. George Larson, of Winnfield; three
grandchildren, Ann Love of Kilgore, Texas, B. G. and Mary Sue Newton of Oak
Ridge, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. James Cravens of Inglewood, Calif.; and aunt,
Mrs. Mary Jackson of Hargis, and an uncle, J. W. Teddlie of Winnfield.