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Walter Edward "Buck" Guthrie - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, January 30, 1959

W. E. Guthrie Dies Saturday Following Illness

Walter Edward "Buck" Guthrie, 65, deputy sheriff and custodian of the Madison Parish jail, died Saturday 
in a Vicksburg hospital after a lengthy illness.

He was a member of the Scott-Nicols-Voak Post No. 100, American Legion and the Methodist Church.

Services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 p. in. with the Rev. William F. Mayor, pastor of First Methodist 
Church officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery with Young's Funeral Home in charge 
of arrangements.

He is survived by three brothers, Marion P. Guthrie and T. A. Guthrie, both of Newellton, and M. W. Guthrie 
of Little Rock, Ark.; two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Gould, Bastrop, and Mrs. P. O. Benjamin, Tallulah, and 
several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were C. D. Guthrie, Ed Y. Berry, W. A. Guthrie, Walter Benjamin, C. D. Johnson and Owen Moore.

The honorary pallbearers were Sheriff C. E. Hester and his staff of deputies; Chief of Police H. C. Massey 
and members of the Tallulah Police Department and the Madison Parish area state patrolmen.