Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
LEON NIAGER
Funeral services for Leon Niager, 63, retired coppersmith for the L&A railroad who died in the Veterans Administration Hospital here Thursday will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel.
Mr. Niager, who resided at 3102 Parkhurst St., was a native of Decatur, Ala. He had resided in Shreveport for the past 27 years.
The Rev. Ben Rogers, pastor of the Parkhurst Baptist Church, will officiate at the funeral rites. Burial will be in Centuries Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Joe Webb, Otto Turk, W. A. Morris, H. T. Gillam, W. H. Green and R. R. Zellar.
Saturday, June 6, 1959