Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, September 8, 1995

WARDLAW, JAMES L. ``JIM''

Died 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1995, at Medical Center of Baton Rouge. He was 71, a longtime resident of Baton Rouge and a native of Shreveport. He was a retired South Central Bell employee and a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

Visiting was held at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday, with Masonic services at 7 p.m. Visiting at the funeral home chapel, noon until religious services at 3 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Rev. Judy Gable Roeling. Interment in Greenoaks Memorial Park.

Survived by wife, Katie Wardlaw, Baton Rouge; a daughter, Lee Ann Wardlaw Danford, Baton Rouge; four sisters, Edwina Toye, Marshall, Texas, Norma Noble, Mollie Smith and Margaret Fletcher, all of Baton Rouge; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by a son, Timothy Doyle Wardlaw; and parents, Richard E. and Lillian May Doyle Wardlaw. Pallbearers will be George Spence, James E. Eastwood, Darrell Fletcher, Andrew Schott, Jarrett Smith and Richard Fletcher.

He was a member of Broadmoor Presbyterian Church, Telephone Pioneers of America and member and past master of Baton Rouge Lodge No. 372, F&AM.