Obituaries: Stanley T. Smith, 1954, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 6, 1954 Winnfield News-American or Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral Services for Stanley Smith at Dodson Friday

Funeral services for Stanley T. Smith, age 47, who died in a Ruston hospital
this morning, Thursday, following a long illness, will be held Friday morning
at 10 o'clock at the Methodist Church in Dodson.  Rev. L. G. Shaw will conduct
the rites which will be followed with interment in the New Hope Cemetery.

A lifelong resident of Dodson, the deceased had been employed in a local drug
store for the past eighteen years.  His family was among the first residents
of Dodson, where now live many of his relatives.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. J. G. Smith of Dodson; four sisters, Mrs. J. B.
Milam, Ruston; Mrs. L. L. Jones, Shreveport; Mrs. G. W. Smith, Alexandria; and
Mrs. Edith Terral, Dodson; two brothers, Verne Smith, Rayville, and Harold
Smith of Port Sulphur.

(From another issue)

Friends, Relatives Attending Funeral of Stanley T. Smith

The out of town friends and relatives attending the funeral of Stanley T.
Smith at Dodson on last Friday were, Mrs. W. L. Shannon, Mrs. J. R. Furr, Mrs.
Lola Odom, Mrs. Leona Hinkle, Mrs. Lurline Owens, Mrs. Velva Berlin, Miss
Zattie Faith of Alexandria; Joe Byrd of Jonesboro; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ewing,
Mr. and Mrs. Don H. Milam, Mrs. John LaRue of Ruston; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Faith,
Shreveport; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sholars, Mrs. John Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. John
Y. Bell, Mrs. J. E. Reeves, Mrs. Dorothy Haynes, Robert Lee Dunn, Dr. F. C.
Wren, Hiram J. Wright, Jack Oglesby, Norman Smith, George Smith, Harry Fuller,
Tracy L. Harrell, Sheriff C. M. Robinson.

Willie Gaar, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Watts, L. C. Carter, Shirley Jackson, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Emerson, J. J. Johnson, Mrs. O. T. White, Miss Bettye Alford, Sarah
Thurmond of Winnfield; Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Richardson, Lake Charles; Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Payne and Roy Payne of Shreveport, Mrs. Loyd Parker, Mrs. Mable
Gatlin of Jonesboro; Rev. and Mrs. I. A. Patton of West Monroe.

Earl Hammett, Mrs. Reba Grissom of Jonesboro, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Long, Mrs. I. 
A. Talton, and Matt Milam, Winnfield.

Pallbearers serving at the rites were Joe H. Emerson, Louis Sholars, Carthal
Payne, Henry Kornegay, Roy Payne, and Edwin Payne.