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Garland Allen Colvin

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Garland Allen Colvin

Birth
Vienna, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
24 Apr 1931 (aged 65)
Dubach, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Unionville, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for G. A. Colvin, prominent Lincoln parish farmer who died at his home near Dubach Saturday night as the result of a heart attack, were conducted at the Dubach Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock with the pastor Rev. Joe Hinkie assisted by the Rev. C. C. Young in charge. Interment followed in the Unionville cemetery, under the direction of B. F. McLure, local undertakers.

A member of the parish police jury for 12 years and affiliated with many other activities, Mr. Colvin was one of the most widely known citizens of the parish. He was vice president of the parish, farm council and chairman of the drought relief committee. He was a member of the Baptist church, a Mason, and president of the Colvin reunion. The latter was comprised of the Colvin families, more than 100 of them living in the parish and all of them kin to Mr. Colvin.

Surviving are his widow; two sons, Little and Ruel Colvin of Unionville; three sisters, Mrs. Edith O'Neal of Bossier City, Mrs. Pearl Lowery of Bernice and Mrs. Tiny Scaife of Malvern, Ark., and one daughter, Miss Nora Colvin, a teacher in the Mansfield public schools.

Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), April 27, 1931
Funeral services for G. A. Colvin, prominent Lincoln parish farmer who died at his home near Dubach Saturday night as the result of a heart attack, were conducted at the Dubach Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock with the pastor Rev. Joe Hinkie assisted by the Rev. C. C. Young in charge. Interment followed in the Unionville cemetery, under the direction of B. F. McLure, local undertakers.

A member of the parish police jury for 12 years and affiliated with many other activities, Mr. Colvin was one of the most widely known citizens of the parish. He was vice president of the parish, farm council and chairman of the drought relief committee. He was a member of the Baptist church, a Mason, and president of the Colvin reunion. The latter was comprised of the Colvin families, more than 100 of them living in the parish and all of them kin to Mr. Colvin.

Surviving are his widow; two sons, Little and Ruel Colvin of Unionville; three sisters, Mrs. Edith O'Neal of Bossier City, Mrs. Pearl Lowery of Bernice and Mrs. Tiny Scaife of Malvern, Ark., and one daughter, Miss Nora Colvin, a teacher in the Mansfield public schools.

Published in The Ruston Daily Leader (LA), April 27, 1931

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