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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, April 1, 1971

Robert Payne Dies March 30 Of Heart Attack

Robert Payne of Dodson, son of Mrs. W. B. Payne of Jonesboro and the late W. B. Payne, died of a heart attack in a Jonesboro hospital around midnight, March 30, 1971.

Funeral services are incomplete at this time and will be announced at a later time.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Berta S. Payne; one daughter, Glenda Payne, one son, Waymon Payne II, one stepson, Eugene Owens, all of Dodson, one sister, Mrs. Winnie Weinholdt of Los Angeles, Calif., one brother, Carthel Payne of Dodson, and his mother, Mrs. W. B. Payne of Jonesboro.