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PENDARVIS, George

Monroe Policeman Formerly of Winn, Shot By Young Wife
The body of George Pendarvis, 34 year old Monroe police officer and native of Winn Parish, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Monroe by his wife, was brought to the residence of his father, Will Pendarvis, near Tullos, Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Magnolia cemetery two miles east of Tullos at 10 a.m. Friday. Interment will follow in the cemetery.
His wife, Ethel, 24, is being held in the parish jail as a murder suspect. She was reported calm and quiet Wednesday night. Police said the shooting occurred near the intersection of Jackson and Chestnut streets when, according to Mrs. Pendarvis, she pulled the gun from her husband's holster and shot him.
She said it was a climax of an argument during which Pendarvis had slapped her.
H. T. Ward, Monroe police chief, said yesterday afternoon that the "finding of an investigation will be turned over to District Attorney Fred Fudicker, Jr., for action immediately after a coroner's inquest slated by Dr. J. T. French for Friday at 2 p.m.
Pendarvis died in the Conway Memorial Hospital at approximately 1:05 a.m., nearly 58 minutes after the shooting. The .38 calibre bullet had entered his right side, emerging near his left hip. He had gotten out of the car and fallen in an attempt to walk up the street. He was rushed to the hospital by a fellow police officer who happened to be returning from a movie with his wife and saw him lying in the street. He died 25 minutes after arrival at the hospital.
--Contributed by Greggory E. Davies, extracted from Winnfield News-American, August 5, 1949

REED, Victoria

Victoria Reed 110-year old Monroe Negro women who was born into slavery was buried here Monday. Active until 10 day before her death the woman had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed. She died Wednesday. The woman who attended the same church for over 90 years in the Lamkin community. Like to tell her friends about her memories of the slavery days. She is survived by three daughters and one son, 40 grandchildren, 62 great grandchildren, 25 great great grandchildren; a widow for many years since 1930 before her death she lived with her daughter on Magnolia Street in Monroe.
Contributed 10 Nov 2007 by Carlos Jackson, extracted from Monroe News Star, January 28, 1953

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