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Extracted from The Winnfield News-American (Winnfield, LA)
Funeral Services For H. L. Edgington Held Last Saturday
Succumbs to Illness of Weeks at Home of Parents at Hope, Ark.
Funeral services for H. Leroy Edgington, who died at the home of his parents,
wee held last Saturday afternoon at four o'clock at the Christian Church and
interment made in the Rosehill Cemetery at Hope, Ark., conducted by the Rev.
Holt, pastor of the Christian Church, assisted by the Baptist pastor of that
city.
Mr. Edgington died Friday, October 26th following an illness of several weeks.
He was a member of the Christian Church and is survived by his widow, who
before her marriage was Miss Mary D. McCoy of this city, three children, Olive
Nell, Bobby Cagle, and Hunter Leroy, father and mother, Mrs. M. E. Edginton,
Hope, Ark., two brothers, Vernon Edgington, Smackover, Ark., and Cecil
Edgington, Hope, Ark.
The deceased was born in Gurdon, Ark., later moving with his parents to Hope.
He came to Louisiana to work at the age of twenty-three and was well known
here being at different times employed by the local printing offices as shop
foreman.
Pallbearers at the funeral were high school classmates of Mr. Edgington and
with whom he graduated.
Thursday, November 2, 1933