Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, August 9, 1961

Robert L. Tillman

COLUMBIA (Special) -- Funeral services for Robert L. Tillman of Bastrop were scheduled to be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Columbia Heights Methodist Church near Columbia with the Rev. D. T. Williamson officiating.

Mr. Tillman, 40, died Monday in Veterans Hospital in Alexandria after an illness of about three weeks.

Interment will be in Pollock Cemetery under direction of Riser and Son Funeral Home.

Masonic graveside services by Clarks Lodge 832 F and AM were scheduled.

He was a veteran of World War II.

Survivors are his widow,, Mrs. Shirley Powell Tillman, Bastrop; a son Shawn Edson Tillman, Bastrop.