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Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Wednesday, May 26, 1999

JAMES, HENRY MONROE

A resident of Loranger, he died Monday, May 24, 1999, at North Oaks Medical Center, Hammond. He was 82 and a native of Louin, Miss. He was a dairyman, trucker and Hammond businessman, having operated several service stations in Hammond, beginning in the early 1960s until he retired in 1985. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World Ward II, having served in Belgium, Germany and France.

Visiting at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, Hammond, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday and after 8 a.m. Thursday. Religious services at the funeral home chapel at 1 p.m. Thursday, conducted by his son-in-law, Brother Steve Elston and Brother Michael Williamson. Interment in Oak Grove Church of God Cemetery, Loranger.

Survived by wife, Cwilla Williamson James, Loranger; a daughter,Arlette James Elston, Loranger; a sister, Lila ``Coot'' Winstead, Little, Rock, Ark.; two grandsons, Darrell Elston, Ragley, and DaRyan Elston, Loranger; great-grand-children and a host of nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by a daughter, Gwendolyn Renae James; a great-grandson, Tyler John Elston; father, William Matthew James; mother, Carrie McCarty James; sisters, Susie Allgood, Annie Lee, Bessie Raynor [sic Rayner] and Lottie Joiner Porter; and brothers, Aaron, Harvey, Hilburn, Howard, Houston, Oliver, Russell and Tom T.Q. James, and an infant brother.