Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Ernest Crain, 59, 1640 Fulton St., who died at 4 a.m. Sunday at his residence following a brief illness.
Mr. Crain, a carpenter, had lived in Shreveport for 25 years and was a member of the Linwood Baptist Church.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rose-Neath Chapel with the Rev. Vernon Holliday, pastor of the Linwood Baptist Church officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bill Stowell, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Beatrice Crain; one son, Ernest Crain Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Mullins and Mrs. Ruby Trenton, all of Shreveport; five brothers, Leo Crain of Tinsley, Miss., T. R. Crain, Pineville, Walter Crain, Belcher, Guy Crain, Carthage, Tex., and W. B. Crain of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ruby Smitherman of Longview, Tex.; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Gilbert Daney, Carl Curry, William Tucker, Richard Edelen, Howard Culbertson, Clyde Smitherman, Floyd Crain and Jesse Hemperley.
Published in The Shreveport Times (LA), Monday, September 14, 1964
Mr. Crain, a carpenter, had lived in Shreveport for 25 years and was a member of the Linwood Baptist Church.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rose-Neath Chapel with the Rev. Vernon Holliday, pastor of the Linwood Baptist Church officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bill Stowell, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Beatrice Crain; one son, Ernest Crain Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Mullins and Mrs. Ruby Trenton, all of Shreveport; five brothers, Leo Crain of Tinsley, Miss., T. R. Crain, Pineville, Walter Crain, Belcher, Guy Crain, Carthage, Tex., and W. B. Crain of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ruby Smitherman of Longview, Tex.; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Gilbert Daney, Carl Curry, William Tucker, Richard Edelen, Howard Culbertson, Clyde Smitherman, Floyd Crain and Jesse Hemperley.
Published in The Shreveport Times (LA), Monday, September 14, 1964
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Ernest Crain, 59, 1640 Fulton St., who died at 4 a.m. Sunday at his residence following a brief illness.
Mr. Crain, a carpenter, had lived in Shreveport for 25 years and was a member of the Linwood Baptist Church.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rose-Neath Chapel with the Rev. Vernon Holliday, pastor of the Linwood Baptist Church officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bill Stowell, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Beatrice Crain; one son, Ernest Crain Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Mullins and Mrs. Ruby Trenton, all of Shreveport; five brothers, Leo Crain of Tinsley, Miss., T. R. Crain, Pineville, Walter Crain, Belcher, Guy Crain, Carthage, Tex., and W. B. Crain of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ruby Smitherman of Longview, Tex.; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Gilbert Daney, Carl Curry, William Tucker, Richard Edelen, Howard Culbertson, Clyde Smitherman, Floyd Crain and Jesse Hemperley.
Published in The Shreveport Times (LA), Monday, September 14, 1964
Mr. Crain, a carpenter, had lived in Shreveport for 25 years and was a member of the Linwood Baptist Church.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rose-Neath Chapel with the Rev. Vernon Holliday, pastor of the Linwood Baptist Church officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bill Stowell, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Beatrice Crain; one son, Ernest Crain Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Mullins and Mrs. Ruby Trenton, all of Shreveport; five brothers, Leo Crain of Tinsley, Miss., T. R. Crain, Pineville, Walter Crain, Belcher, Guy Crain, Carthage, Tex., and W. B. Crain of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ruby Smitherman of Longview, Tex.; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Gilbert Daney, Carl Curry, William Tucker, Richard Edelen, Howard Culbertson, Clyde Smitherman, Floyd Crain and Jesse Hemperley.
Published in The Shreveport Times (LA), Monday, September 14, 1964
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