Obituaries P

ANNIE GERTRUDE BELLE COX PANKEY -- Monroe News-Star, Monroe LA, 28 Oct 1951
Mrs. Annie G. Pankey, 71, died in a local hospital Saturday [27 Oct 1951] morning at 5:10 a.m. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in Trinity Baptist Church in West Monroe. Reverend Filer J. Seals will officiate, assisted by the Rev. T. A. Brown. Interment under direction of Hall Funeral Home will follow in Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe.
The body will remain at Hall Funeral Home until time for removal to the church.
Mrs. Pankey is survived by her husband, I. L. Pankey; three daughters, Mrs. E. L. May, West Monroe; and Mrs. Curtis Shell and Mrs. Cecil Stone, both also of West Monroe; four sons, G. H. Pankey, Haskel Pankey, Hollie Pankey and Lenard Pankey, all of West Monroe; a brother, Harmon Cox, Monroe; and 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
[Annie married Isaac Lawrence PANKEY on 16 Aug 1902, Upshur County TX.]
--Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com

ISAAC LAWRENCE PANKEY -- The News-Star, Monroe LA, 15 Jan 1954
Funeral services for I.L. Pankey, 72, of 118 Bancroft Street, West Monroe, who died Thursday afternoon [14 Jan 1954] in St. Francis Sanitarium, were held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Trinity Baptist Church, West Monroe, with Rev. H.J. Mott, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. Brown. Interment was in Hasley Cemetery.
Mr. Pankey is survived by four sons, Granville, Haskell, Hollie and Leonard, all of West Monroe; three daughters, Mrs. E. L. May, Mrs. Curtis Shell, and Mrs. C.G. Stone all of West Monroe; four brothers, Dr. Joe Pankey, Ferriday, Tom Pankey, Epps, Sam Pankey, Emmett, Ark., and Jim Pankey of Chatham; three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Murphy and Mrs. Walter Jones of Monroe and Mrs. Steve Waldrop of Chatham; and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were J.L. Black, T. T. Phillips, W.L. Anders, Harvey May, W. E. Fordham, and Fred Stone.
--Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com

GEORGE PENDARVIS -- Winnfield News-American, August 5, 1949
Monroe Policeman Formerly of Winn, Shot By Young Wife
The body of George Pendarvis, 34 year old Monroe police officer and native of Winn Parish, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Monroe by his wife, was brought to the residence of his father, Will Pendarvis, near Tullos, Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Magnolia cemetery two miles east of Tullos at 10 a.m. Friday. Interment will follow in the cemetery.
His wife, Ethel, 24, is being held in the parish jail as a murder suspect. She was reported calm and quiet Wednesday night. Police said the shooting occurred near the intersection of Jackson and Chestnut streets when, according to Mrs. Pendarvis, she pulled the gun from her husband's holster and shot him.
She said it was a climax of an argument during which Pendarvis had slapped her.
H. T. Ward, Monroe police chief, said yesterday afternoon that the "finding of an investigation will be turned over to District Attorney Fred Fudicker, Jr., for action immediately after a coroner's inquest slated by Dr. J. T. French for Friday at 2 p.m.
Pendarvis died in the Conway Memorial Hospital at approximately 1:05 a.m., nearly 58 minutes after the shooting. The .38 calibre bullet had entered his right side, emerging near his left hip. He had gotten out of the car and fallen in an attempt to walk up the street. He was rushed to the hospital by a fellow police officer who happened to be returning from a movie with his wife and saw him lying in the street. He died 25 minutes after arrival at the hospital.
--Contributed by Greggory E. Davies

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