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Roy Dale Madison Parish, LA

From Tallulah Madison Journal July 9, 1954

Roy Dales Dies In Vicksburg Monday Afternoon

Roy Dale, a native of Columbus, Miss., died in a Vicksburg hospital Monday afternoon. The 53-year old 
merchant and farmer died after a brief illness. He had resided in Madison Parish for the past 35 years.

Mr. Dale was a well-known merchant and farmer of the parish. He formerly operated a dry goods store on 
Depot Street, which is now known as Bryant's Department Store. He was a member of the first Baptist 
Church of Talluah.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lillian Bennett Dale; a daughter, Mrs. W. S. Pierce of El Dorado, Ark.; 
a sister, Mrs., Hutson Covert, Philadelphia, Pa.; his mother, Mrs. M. W. Conner, Tallulah; and four 
step-brothers, Dr. C. J. Conner, Glande Conner, W. M. Conner, Columbia, Miss., and E. H. McCoy, Jackson, Miss.

Funeral services were held in the First Baptist Church of Tallulah at 10:30 a. m., Wednesday with 
Rev. Irvin Cheney, Jr., officiating. Interment followed in the Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction 
of Young's Funeral Home.

Honorary pallbearers included: Johnnie Stocks, William Powell, L. Farr, Norman Gayle, J. C. Lee, Lucian Roy, 
A. L. Wise, H. P. Buford, Earl Leoty, E. H. Lancaster, Sr., James D. Sevier, Cliff Erwin, W. L. Rountree, 
Walter Scott, Jr., I. Rosenzweig, Horace W. Lee, Gus Willett, Jr., J. E. Neill, Sr., Ward Holt, D. H. Allen, 
J. N. Harvey, W. M. Bray, Douglas Lee, R. R. Spigener, G. E. Gilbert, Elton Everett, T. A. Cagnolatti, 
Austin Moore, M. W. Washburn, H. C. Massey, Lynn Naylor, Louis Nettles, R. Paul Gaines, William Yerger, 
Hugh Montgomery, Webb Williams, Dr. H. S. Provine, W. P. Sevier, Jr., C. A. Sparling, Ralph Loe, Jesse Anderson, 
Barton Sevier, J. W. Love, Sam Fuller, B. P. Folk, Sr., Guy Atkinson, W. H. Harvey, A. L. Sevier, Sr., J. W. Davis, 
R. W. Gandy, Jr., W. L. Stinson, C. B. Demoss, Jr., Robert Graves, R. E. Russ, J. M. Gilfoil, Dr. E. Otis Edgerton, 
Dr. George Webb, Dr. A. L. Lombardo, George W. Webb, Sr., Roy Crow, Bill Colligan, C. E. Walker, R. L. Bailey, 
Trent Palmer, Cedric Starrett, J. L. Davis, Sam Vilardo, Salo Abrahm, Jr., H. B. Day, W. F. Patton, T. A. Smith, 
Wayne Harkey, Harry Vilardo, W. E. Regenold, W. P. Pippin, Odo Cagnolatti, Henry C. Sevier, Sr., Tom Bradley, 
Erwin Trichell, David L.Pickle, J. E. Furr, Dr. J. Roy Medlin, Phillip Scurria, Mandeville  Kell, George Eggleston, 
J. C. Byram, Shields Bray, George Speed  Freddie Helton, Ernest Stewart  and all other friends of the family.

Active pallbearers were Joe M. Clark, William W. Ziegler, Andrew L. Sevier, Jr., Francis Ward; Rufus Yerger, 
Robert E. Brown, George Watts and Emmett Craig.