COLUMBIA — Vinson M. Mouser, head of the State Ethics Commission for Elected Officials and longtime law partner of Gov. McKeithen, died about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Caldwell Parish Hospital here. He was 65.
Funeral arrangements were being made at Riser Funeral Home.
Mouser, a former district judge here, had been in ill health since December.
Born in Grayson where his father was pastor of the Methodist Church, Judge Mouser was educated in various schools as his father traveled from church to church to fill pastorates. He was graduated from the Ansley, La., High School, where the Davis brothers operated a sawmill. During this period, he became acquainted with the late Gov. Huey P. Long, whose sister was married to one of the sawmill owners in Ansley.
After receiving his law degree from the University of Texas, Mouser studied for the bar in Louisiana and worked for about a year as a lawyer in the law office of Huey P. Long in Shreveport. He later moved to Columbia, where his wife's family lived and became an assistant district attorney.
He was first elected district judge in 1942 and served until 1954, at which time he became a partner in the law firm of McKeithen, Mouser and McKinley, a business relationship that continued until his death Tuesday.
Judge Mouser was married to Gov. McKeithen's cousin, the former Helen Holmes. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, attorneys Holmes Mouser, Columbia, and Edward Mouser, Kinder; two brothers, Rev. Roy Mouser, a former Methodist pastor in Baton Rouge, and Cotys Mouser, clerk for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee; and three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Mouser Johnston, Columbia, Mrs. Hazel Mouser Joyce, whose husband is county agent of Ouachita Parish at Monroe, and Mrs. Marie Mouser Stallcup, whose husband Clyde is the former all Gulf States Conference basketball player who now heads the recreation department of Shreveport.
Judge Mouser was considered one of the outstanding lay leaders of the Methodist Church in Louisiana and the nation, having attended a number of national conferences of his church. He was also a Kiwanian and a member of the Caldwell Parish, Louisiana and American Bar Associations.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, said a Riser Funeral Home spokesman. Burial will follow in the Columbia Cemetery.
The funeral home will open at 10 a.m. Wednesday, added the spokesman.
Dr. E. J. Carroll, Mouser's physician, said he was stricken after an operation. Carroll said Mouser had a health history of heart trouble but the attack came quite suddenly.
Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge), April 2, 1969
Funeral arrangements were being made at Riser Funeral Home.
Mouser, a former district judge here, had been in ill health since December.
Born in Grayson where his father was pastor of the Methodist Church, Judge Mouser was educated in various schools as his father traveled from church to church to fill pastorates. He was graduated from the Ansley, La., High School, where the Davis brothers operated a sawmill. During this period, he became acquainted with the late Gov. Huey P. Long, whose sister was married to one of the sawmill owners in Ansley.
After receiving his law degree from the University of Texas, Mouser studied for the bar in Louisiana and worked for about a year as a lawyer in the law office of Huey P. Long in Shreveport. He later moved to Columbia, where his wife's family lived and became an assistant district attorney.
He was first elected district judge in 1942 and served until 1954, at which time he became a partner in the law firm of McKeithen, Mouser and McKinley, a business relationship that continued until his death Tuesday.
Judge Mouser was married to Gov. McKeithen's cousin, the former Helen Holmes. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, attorneys Holmes Mouser, Columbia, and Edward Mouser, Kinder; two brothers, Rev. Roy Mouser, a former Methodist pastor in Baton Rouge, and Cotys Mouser, clerk for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee; and three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Mouser Johnston, Columbia, Mrs. Hazel Mouser Joyce, whose husband is county agent of Ouachita Parish at Monroe, and Mrs. Marie Mouser Stallcup, whose husband Clyde is the former all Gulf States Conference basketball player who now heads the recreation department of Shreveport.
Judge Mouser was considered one of the outstanding lay leaders of the Methodist Church in Louisiana and the nation, having attended a number of national conferences of his church. He was also a Kiwanian and a member of the Caldwell Parish, Louisiana and American Bar Associations.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, said a Riser Funeral Home spokesman. Burial will follow in the Columbia Cemetery.
The funeral home will open at 10 a.m. Wednesday, added the spokesman.
Dr. E. J. Carroll, Mouser's physician, said he was stricken after an operation. Carroll said Mouser had a health history of heart trouble but the attack came quite suddenly.
Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge), April 2, 1969
COLUMBIA — Vinson M. Mouser, head of the State Ethics Commission for Elected Officials and longtime law partner of Gov. McKeithen, died about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Caldwell Parish Hospital here. He was 65.
Funeral arrangements were being made at Riser Funeral Home.
Mouser, a former district judge here, had been in ill health since December.
Born in Grayson where his father was pastor of the Methodist Church, Judge Mouser was educated in various schools as his father traveled from church to church to fill pastorates. He was graduated from the Ansley, La., High School, where the Davis brothers operated a sawmill. During this period, he became acquainted with the late Gov. Huey P. Long, whose sister was married to one of the sawmill owners in Ansley.
After receiving his law degree from the University of Texas, Mouser studied for the bar in Louisiana and worked for about a year as a lawyer in the law office of Huey P. Long in Shreveport. He later moved to Columbia, where his wife's family lived and became an assistant district attorney.
He was first elected district judge in 1942 and served until 1954, at which time he became a partner in the law firm of McKeithen, Mouser and McKinley, a business relationship that continued until his death Tuesday.
Judge Mouser was married to Gov. McKeithen's cousin, the former Helen Holmes. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, attorneys Holmes Mouser, Columbia, and Edward Mouser, Kinder; two brothers, Rev. Roy Mouser, a former Methodist pastor in Baton Rouge, and Cotys Mouser, clerk for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee; and three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Mouser Johnston, Columbia, Mrs. Hazel Mouser Joyce, whose husband is county agent of Ouachita Parish at Monroe, and Mrs. Marie Mouser Stallcup, whose husband Clyde is the former all Gulf States Conference basketball player who now heads the recreation department of Shreveport.
Judge Mouser was considered one of the outstanding lay leaders of the Methodist Church in Louisiana and the nation, having attended a number of national conferences of his church. He was also a Kiwanian and a member of the Caldwell Parish, Louisiana and American Bar Associations.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, said a Riser Funeral Home spokesman. Burial will follow in the Columbia Cemetery.
The funeral home will open at 10 a.m. Wednesday, added the spokesman.
Dr. E. J. Carroll, Mouser's physician, said he was stricken after an operation. Carroll said Mouser had a health history of heart trouble but the attack came quite suddenly.
Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge), April 2, 1969
Funeral arrangements were being made at Riser Funeral Home.
Mouser, a former district judge here, had been in ill health since December.
Born in Grayson where his father was pastor of the Methodist Church, Judge Mouser was educated in various schools as his father traveled from church to church to fill pastorates. He was graduated from the Ansley, La., High School, where the Davis brothers operated a sawmill. During this period, he became acquainted with the late Gov. Huey P. Long, whose sister was married to one of the sawmill owners in Ansley.
After receiving his law degree from the University of Texas, Mouser studied for the bar in Louisiana and worked for about a year as a lawyer in the law office of Huey P. Long in Shreveport. He later moved to Columbia, where his wife's family lived and became an assistant district attorney.
He was first elected district judge in 1942 and served until 1954, at which time he became a partner in the law firm of McKeithen, Mouser and McKinley, a business relationship that continued until his death Tuesday.
Judge Mouser was married to Gov. McKeithen's cousin, the former Helen Holmes. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, attorneys Holmes Mouser, Columbia, and Edward Mouser, Kinder; two brothers, Rev. Roy Mouser, a former Methodist pastor in Baton Rouge, and Cotys Mouser, clerk for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee; and three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Mouser Johnston, Columbia, Mrs. Hazel Mouser Joyce, whose husband is county agent of Ouachita Parish at Monroe, and Mrs. Marie Mouser Stallcup, whose husband Clyde is the former all Gulf States Conference basketball player who now heads the recreation department of Shreveport.
Judge Mouser was considered one of the outstanding lay leaders of the Methodist Church in Louisiana and the nation, having attended a number of national conferences of his church. He was also a Kiwanian and a member of the Caldwell Parish, Louisiana and American Bar Associations.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, said a Riser Funeral Home spokesman. Burial will follow in the Columbia Cemetery.
The funeral home will open at 10 a.m. Wednesday, added the spokesman.
Dr. E. J. Carroll, Mouser's physician, said he was stricken after an operation. Carroll said Mouser had a health history of heart trouble but the attack came quite suddenly.
Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge), April 2, 1969
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Both the 1920 & 1930 census records show that Mr. Mouser was born in Arkansas.
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