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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, May 30, 1963

A. P. Smith Dies From Injuries At Harahan, La.

A. P. Smith, about 62 [sic 64], a native of Winnfield, died Monday night in Harahan, La., from injuries received in an automobile accident last Friday near Napoleonville, La. Last rites were conducted in Harahan Wednesday.

Smith owned and operated the old Victoria Theater in the early days here before he accepted a position with the La. Power & Light Co. of New Orleans.

He will be remembered by sports fans as a star player in Winnfield and was end on the all state team when Winnfield had such a good team in the early days. His father was a member of the Smith-Grisham Drug Store firm here back then.

Surviving is one sister, Mrs. B. F. (Helen) Smoot of Harahan, La.
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Extracted from The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
Thursday, May 30, 1963

A. P. SMITH LAST RITES ARE HELD

Retired Power Company Foreman Was 65

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning for Archibald P. Smith, retired line construction foreman for the Louisiana Power & Light Co.

The services were held at the Jefferson funeral home of Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp, Inc., 1600 Causeway blvd., with interment in the Garden of Memories.

Mr. Smith, 65, died Tuesday [sic Monday night] in an automobile accident on U.S. Hwy. 90, about six miles west of the Huey P. Long bridge.

A native of Winnfield and a graduate of Louisiana College at Pineville, Mr. Smith was engaged in the wholesale business prior to joining the power firm in 1929 as a bookkeeper. He was later transferred to construction in the Algiers area.

He was promoted to line foreman in 1941, heading a construction crew based in Napoleonville, where he resided until his retirement in February of this year. He was a member of American Legion Post No. 88, Napoleonville, and the Napoleonville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Helen Mae Smoot, of Harahan.