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John W. Crowther Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post, December 28, 2009

TALLULAH — John W. Crowther Jr. died Friday, Dec. 25, 2009, at Olive Branch Senior Care 
Center in Tallulah. He was 89.

A native of Decatur, Ala., Mr. Crowther was a resident of New Orleans for a number of 
years and moved to Tallulah following Hurricane Katrina.

He was the son of the late John Wilkerson Sr. and Alline Lavecchia Crowther. He received 
his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1950 and retired as an associate professor 
of English at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Mr. Crowther was of the Catholic faith.

He is survived by a number of relatives, including members of the Crowther, Roesch and 
Reddoch families of Vicksburg.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Catholic Church with Monsignor Patrick 
Farrell officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of 
Fisher Funeral Home. Visitation will be at the church Tuesday from 9 a.m. until the service.

Pallbearers will be George Roesch Sr., George Roesch Jr., Carl Crowther, Dan Fordice, 
Gregg Pettersen, John Albert Pettersen, Jerome Booth and Donald Roesch.

Honorary pallbearers will be Robert and Virginia Lindsey, Don Kosch, Charles Crowther, 
Edward Crowther, Rodney and Gerri Caruso, Elmo Gautreau, Dr. L.P. Newmann and staff members 
of Patient’s Choice Hospice and Olive Branch Senior Care Center.