Obituaries: B. L. Upton, 1980, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: November 19, 1980 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

B. L. Upton, 58, of 111 Hannah-Pickett Avenue, East Rockingham, North
Carolina, died of a heart attack November 11, 1980.  He was the son of the
late Bluford Upton and Dottie James Upton.

Mr. Upton was a graduate of the Winnfield High School in 1941, a paratrooper
in the 82nd Airborne of World War II where he received the Purple Heart, a
supervisor for Alco Manufacturing Company, and a member of the Pentecostal
Holiness Church in East Rockingham.

Funeral services were conducted Friday, November 14, 1t 3:30 p.m. at the First
Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev. Kenneth Whisenant and Rev.
Bernard Cox officiating.  Burial with military honors were at Richmond County
Memorial Park.

The family received friends Thursday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock at Marks
Funeral Home.

He was survived by his wife, the former Virginia Sears; one son, Bill L.
Upton, Jr. of Canton, North Carolina; one daughter, Mrs. Betty Kwasnick of New
Bern, North Carolina; two grandchildren; one brother, Edward W. Upton of
Sterling, Virginia; and two sisters, Mrs. Eris Newsom and Mrs. Jewell Jordan,
both of Winnfield, Louisiana.

Attending the last rites from Winnfield were Mrs. Eris Newsom, Mrs. Jewell
Jordan, Mrs. Myrtle James, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy James, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn James,
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Gene James, Mrs. Margaret Weeks, and Mrs. and Mrs. Mike
Jordan.