Services for Dr. Herman Colvin were at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Start Baptist Church with the Revs. H. D. Hammons and Harry Burns officiating.
Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Rayville.
Dr. Colvin died Friday at Richland Parish Hospital in Rayville after a lengthy illness.
He was a retired Army Colonel and veteran of World War II, a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a university professor at Mississippi State University in Startville, Miss., and at the University in Startville, Miss., and at the University of North Carolina in Greenville. He was chaplain of Radio Ministry in Startville, director of United Christian Action, director of LCMF in Baton Rouge, and was former lawyer. He was the author of many religious writings and a member of the Start Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dr. Elsie Marie Robinson Colvin of Start; brother, Earl Colvin of Ruston; and sister, Mrs. Hazel Dacus of Walcott, Ark.
Pallbearers were Bobby Adams, Lanny Sullivan, Otto Parker, Dr. Cloice Ledloe, Warren Meredith, Tommy Lauranoff, J. W. Harper and Judge Robert Farr.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Louisiana Bar Association.
Published in The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA), Wednesday, May 5, 1982
Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Rayville.
Dr. Colvin died Friday at Richland Parish Hospital in Rayville after a lengthy illness.
He was a retired Army Colonel and veteran of World War II, a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a university professor at Mississippi State University in Startville, Miss., and at the University in Startville, Miss., and at the University of North Carolina in Greenville. He was chaplain of Radio Ministry in Startville, director of United Christian Action, director of LCMF in Baton Rouge, and was former lawyer. He was the author of many religious writings and a member of the Start Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dr. Elsie Marie Robinson Colvin of Start; brother, Earl Colvin of Ruston; and sister, Mrs. Hazel Dacus of Walcott, Ark.
Pallbearers were Bobby Adams, Lanny Sullivan, Otto Parker, Dr. Cloice Ledloe, Warren Meredith, Tommy Lauranoff, J. W. Harper and Judge Robert Farr.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Louisiana Bar Association.
Published in The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA), Wednesday, May 5, 1982
Services for Dr. Herman Colvin were at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Start Baptist Church with the Revs. H. D. Hammons and Harry Burns officiating.
Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Rayville.
Dr. Colvin died Friday at Richland Parish Hospital in Rayville after a lengthy illness.
He was a retired Army Colonel and veteran of World War II, a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a university professor at Mississippi State University in Startville, Miss., and at the University in Startville, Miss., and at the University of North Carolina in Greenville. He was chaplain of Radio Ministry in Startville, director of United Christian Action, director of LCMF in Baton Rouge, and was former lawyer. He was the author of many religious writings and a member of the Start Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dr. Elsie Marie Robinson Colvin of Start; brother, Earl Colvin of Ruston; and sister, Mrs. Hazel Dacus of Walcott, Ark.
Pallbearers were Bobby Adams, Lanny Sullivan, Otto Parker, Dr. Cloice Ledloe, Warren Meredith, Tommy Lauranoff, J. W. Harper and Judge Robert Farr.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Louisiana Bar Association.
Published in The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA), Wednesday, May 5, 1982
Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Rayville.
Dr. Colvin died Friday at Richland Parish Hospital in Rayville after a lengthy illness.
He was a retired Army Colonel and veteran of World War II, a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a university professor at Mississippi State University in Startville, Miss., and at the University in Startville, Miss., and at the University of North Carolina in Greenville. He was chaplain of Radio Ministry in Startville, director of United Christian Action, director of LCMF in Baton Rouge, and was former lawyer. He was the author of many religious writings and a member of the Start Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dr. Elsie Marie Robinson Colvin of Start; brother, Earl Colvin of Ruston; and sister, Mrs. Hazel Dacus of Walcott, Ark.
Pallbearers were Bobby Adams, Lanny Sullivan, Otto Parker, Dr. Cloice Ledloe, Warren Meredith, Tommy Lauranoff, J. W. Harper and Judge Robert Farr.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Louisiana Bar Association.
Published in The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA), Wednesday, May 5, 1982
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