OPELOUSAS, Feb. 2 - Richard D. Lamson, 67, secretary-manager of the St. Landry National Farm Association and widely known throughout Louisiana in Federal Land Bank circles, died at 5 p.m. today at St. Landry Clinic here. The body is at Lafond & Son Funeral Home here. Services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Methodist Church with the Rev. R. E. Walton officiating. Burial will be in Myrtle Grove Cemetery.
Lamson had been secretary of the Farm Loan Association since 1919 and served the Marksville association in a similar capacity. He was a member of the Opelousas Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Masons and the Jerusalem Temple Shrine.
He had been an active Scouter for 30 years and held the Silver Beaver award, highest rank attainable to adult scouters. He was a member of the Association of Commerce, a former member of the Rotary Club and served for many years as Sunday school superintendent and choir director at the Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Wardie Kelly of Opelousas; two sons, Alfred of Lafayette and Tyler of Tyler, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. R. P. Triche Jr. of Baytown, Tex.; and three brothers and five sisters.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Thursday, February 3, 1955
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Richard was the son of William George (possibly FAG #140784029) & Cora Merrill Lamson (grave site unknown).
Richard was born in Massachusetts, his first wife Dora in Germany, married in Illinois but fate was what brought them to Louisiana. He often told the story of how he and Dora happened to settle in Louisiana in December of 1912:
One day Richard and a friend of his in Illinois pooled their money and bought a lottery ticket. They won the prize – a piece of land in south Louisiana. Not knowing what to do with it but also not wanting to just divide the land, they flipped a coin to see who would take title...and Richard won. [If he hadn't won, he and Dora would never have come to Louisiana, their children would never have been born and married in Louisiana and he would not have married his second wife Wardie with their daughter Bess born and married in Louisiana.]
Lamson had been secretary of the Farm Loan Association since 1919 and served the Marksville association in a similar capacity. He was a member of the Opelousas Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Masons and the Jerusalem Temple Shrine.
He had been an active Scouter for 30 years and held the Silver Beaver award, highest rank attainable to adult scouters. He was a member of the Association of Commerce, a former member of the Rotary Club and served for many years as Sunday school superintendent and choir director at the Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Wardie Kelly of Opelousas; two sons, Alfred of Lafayette and Tyler of Tyler, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. R. P. Triche Jr. of Baytown, Tex.; and three brothers and five sisters.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Thursday, February 3, 1955
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Richard was the son of William George (possibly FAG #140784029) & Cora Merrill Lamson (grave site unknown).
Richard was born in Massachusetts, his first wife Dora in Germany, married in Illinois but fate was what brought them to Louisiana. He often told the story of how he and Dora happened to settle in Louisiana in December of 1912:
One day Richard and a friend of his in Illinois pooled their money and bought a lottery ticket. They won the prize – a piece of land in south Louisiana. Not knowing what to do with it but also not wanting to just divide the land, they flipped a coin to see who would take title...and Richard won. [If he hadn't won, he and Dora would never have come to Louisiana, their children would never have been born and married in Louisiana and he would not have married his second wife Wardie with their daughter Bess born and married in Louisiana.]
OPELOUSAS, Feb. 2 - Richard D. Lamson, 67, secretary-manager of the St. Landry National Farm Association and widely known throughout Louisiana in Federal Land Bank circles, died at 5 p.m. today at St. Landry Clinic here. The body is at Lafond & Son Funeral Home here. Services will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Methodist Church with the Rev. R. E. Walton officiating. Burial will be in Myrtle Grove Cemetery.
Lamson had been secretary of the Farm Loan Association since 1919 and served the Marksville association in a similar capacity. He was a member of the Opelousas Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Masons and the Jerusalem Temple Shrine.
He had been an active Scouter for 30 years and held the Silver Beaver award, highest rank attainable to adult scouters. He was a member of the Association of Commerce, a former member of the Rotary Club and served for many years as Sunday school superintendent and choir director at the Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Wardie Kelly of Opelousas; two sons, Alfred of Lafayette and Tyler of Tyler, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. R. P. Triche Jr. of Baytown, Tex.; and three brothers and five sisters.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Thursday, February 3, 1955
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Richard was the son of William George (possibly FAG #140784029) & Cora Merrill Lamson (grave site unknown).
Richard was born in Massachusetts, his first wife Dora in Germany, married in Illinois but fate was what brought them to Louisiana. He often told the story of how he and Dora happened to settle in Louisiana in December of 1912:
One day Richard and a friend of his in Illinois pooled their money and bought a lottery ticket. They won the prize – a piece of land in south Louisiana. Not knowing what to do with it but also not wanting to just divide the land, they flipped a coin to see who would take title...and Richard won. [If he hadn't won, he and Dora would never have come to Louisiana, their children would never have been born and married in Louisiana and he would not have married his second wife Wardie with their daughter Bess born and married in Louisiana.]
Lamson had been secretary of the Farm Loan Association since 1919 and served the Marksville association in a similar capacity. He was a member of the Opelousas Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Masons and the Jerusalem Temple Shrine.
He had been an active Scouter for 30 years and held the Silver Beaver award, highest rank attainable to adult scouters. He was a member of the Association of Commerce, a former member of the Rotary Club and served for many years as Sunday school superintendent and choir director at the Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his widow, the former Wardie Kelly of Opelousas; two sons, Alfred of Lafayette and Tyler of Tyler, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. R. P. Triche Jr. of Baytown, Tex.; and three brothers and five sisters.
Published in The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Thursday, February 3, 1955
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Richard was the son of William George (possibly FAG #140784029) & Cora Merrill Lamson (grave site unknown).
Richard was born in Massachusetts, his first wife Dora in Germany, married in Illinois but fate was what brought them to Louisiana. He often told the story of how he and Dora happened to settle in Louisiana in December of 1912:
One day Richard and a friend of his in Illinois pooled their money and bought a lottery ticket. They won the prize – a piece of land in south Louisiana. Not knowing what to do with it but also not wanting to just divide the land, they flipped a coin to see who would take title...and Richard won. [If he hadn't won, he and Dora would never have come to Louisiana, their children would never have been born and married in Louisiana and he would not have married his second wife Wardie with their daughter Bess born and married in Louisiana.]
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