Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, March 30, 1945

GRIVETTE RITES SET ON SUNDAY

Well Known Vetran of World War 1, Dies Of Heart Seizure

The funeral of Louis Elzie Grivette, 52, one of Monroe's best known veterans of World War 1, who died at his home, 2711 Gordon avenue, suddenly Thursday at 6 p.m., will be held on Sunday afternoon, but definite announcement will be made later. The body is remaining at the Hall Funeral Home.

Mr. Grivette has been described as Monroe's most seriously wounded veteran of the past war in which he lost both legs, an arm, and suffered a severe back injury.

An ambulance was summoned when Mr. Grivette suffered the attack, but upon the arrival at Riverside Sanitarium doctors said that he had apparently died instantly when he suffered a sudden heart attack in his living room.

He was in early boyhood a resident of Olla and entered the World War, being sent overseas with Company H of the 61st infantry, Fifth division. He saw service in some of the bloodiest battles of that war, such as at Verdun, the Argonne Forest, Saint Mihiel and elsewhere.

Mr. Grivette was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Monroe, and the interment will take place in the V.F.W. plot in Riverview Burial Park.

Mr. Grivette is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Grivette; a stepson, James Spillers, United States marine corps; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Doris Bradshaw, Monroe, and Mrs. Billie Lowe, San Francisco, Calif.; a brother, Alvin Grivette, Southern California; his mother, Mrs. L. F. Grivette, Olla, and several nieces and nephews, and a grandchild.