Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, March 20, 1956

Retired Tax Consultant Dies at Home

Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday for J. M. McCarty, 78, retired tax consultant and accountant, who died early Monday at his home at 405 Topeka St.

Services will be at Osborn Chapel by Dr. R. O. Cawker, pastor of the Highland Baptist Church, of which Mr. McCarty was a member. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.

Mr. McCarty had lived here 15 years and was a former resident of Ruston, Haynesville and Monroe. He was employed by the Internal Revenue Department before entering private business as an accountant, and was formerly associated with Dodd College.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Martha Smitherman McCarthy [sic McCarty]; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Mitchell, Mrs. Donald Allen and Mrs. Thomas Hightower; three sons, Robert J. McCarty, Fort Worth, Tex., Marvin R. McCarty, Baton Rouge, and Howard T. McCarty, Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Whitehead, Grayson, and Mrs. Leon Niager, Shreveport; one brother, W. H. McCarty, Beech Creek, Ky., and 11 grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Harry O. Williams, Harold B. Smitherman, James Smitherman Jr., Bryan Allen, Pittman Lawley and J. W. Mitchell.