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Charles L. Smith Sr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, April 5, 1989

Funeral services for Mr. Charles L. Smith Sr., 65, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Crothers Funeral 
Home Chapel with Rev. James Johnson officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery.

Mr. Smith died Tuesday morning at Mississippi Baptist Hospital in Jackson after a short illness.

He was a native of Goldonna and had been a resident of Tallulah for the past 28 years. He was a 
World War II veteran, a member of American Legion Post 100, owner and operator of Smith's Furniture 
Store and a member of the Tallulah First United Pentecostal Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Josephine Smith of Tallulah; two sons, Charles L. Smith Jr. of 
Tallulah and Percy C. Smith of LaBelle, Fla.; one grandson; four granddaughters and a number of 
nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Don Calhoun, William Givens, Theo Watson, Bill King, Arnold Eason and Herman Ghrigsby.