Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, February 8, 1953

AUBREY DURWOOD WOMACK

Funeral services for Aubrey Durwood Womack, 603 Vick Street, West Monroe, Louisiana, will be held Sunday 2:00 p.m. at the Trinity Baptist Church, with Rev. H. J. Mott, officiating.

Interment, under direction of Hall Funeral Home, will be in the Chatham Cemetery.

The body will remain at the residence until time for services.

He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Virginia Womack; two sons: Prentice Durwood and Charles Herbert Womack, of West Monroe, La.; two brothers, Herbert C. Womack, Chatham, Wilford Dowe Womack, San Antonio, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Musick, Shreveport, La.; his mother, Mrs. Bell Womack, Shreveport, La.

The pallbearers will be C. C. Shackelford, Calvin Guillory, F. M. Perkins, Johnnie Bowman, Pete Cobb, Bill Blazier.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Ouachita Parish Basket Ball Team, Kenneth Brown, Al Jones, Frankie Hyle, Tommie Wrenn, Ronnie Walters, Duke Price, Dale Ezell, Neal Duncan, Elton Latham, Donnie Mathys, and Joe Marzula, and their sponsor, B. F. Henderson.
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Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Sunday, February 8, 1953

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FILED IN SHOOTING

A technical charge of manslaughter was filed against Raymond Dunn of West Monroe Saturday after a further coroner's examination of the body of 35-year-old A. D. (Red) Womack revealed that Womack was shot through the back of the neck. Dr. J. T. French, parish coroner, had declared earlier that Womack had been hit in the left jaw.

District Attorney Fred Fudicker said yesterday that the charge was placed against Dunn following further investigation of the shooting. Dunn was released after posting a $2,000 bond set by Judge David I. Garrett.

Womack, a Brown Paper Mill employe for 18 years and the father of two children, was fatally wounded by Dunn shortly before midnight Friday in Dunn's cafe near the entrance to the paper mill.

Dr. French said the bullet entered Womack's body at the base of the neck, emerged through the lower jawbone, and ricocheted around the cafe. He said the victim died within a matter of minutes after he was hit.

Meanwhile, sheriff's officials Saturday were continuing to question a large number of customers present in the cafe at the time of the slaying. One witness said Friday night that Womack threw a chair at a waitress after an argument and that Dunn intervened. He said Womack “reached for another chair and Dunn reached for the gun.”

However, another unidentified witness said it appeared was going through the door when he was shot.

Funeral services for Womack are scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Trinity Baptist Church. The Rev. H. J. Mott will officiate and interment, under the direction of Hall Funeral Home, will be in the Chatham Cemetery.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Virginia Womack; two sons, Prentice and Charles Womack; two brothers, Herbert Womack of Chatham and Wilford Womack of San Antonio, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Musick of Shreveport, and his mother, Mrs. Belle Womack, also of Shreveport.