Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Wednesday, November 6, 1974

Leonard McCarty services are today

COLLINS -- Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today at the Cold Springs Baptist Church for Leonard McCarty, 73, of Collins, who died Monday evening at Forrest General Hospital.

The Rev. Marvin C. Taylor and the Rev. Tommie Morgan were to officiate. Interment was to be in the Salem Cemetery with Johns Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ethel McCarty of Collins; five daughters, Mrs. Percy Lee Smith of Collins, Mrs. Warren Tynes of Mobile, Mrs. Cecil Adams of Wilson, N.C., Mrs. Harold S. Smith of Poplarville and Mrs. James Lofton of Hattiesburg; three sons, Kenneth of Collins, Bennett of Hattiesburg and Bobby McCarty of Bogalusa; 28 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; three brothers, E.F. McCarty of Beaumont, H.O. McCarty and Dewey McCarty, both of Laurel and one sister, Mrs. Albert Rogers of Stringer.