Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
KNIGHT, SAM B. [sic V.] JR.
Died at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday at Patio Lodge Nursing Home. He was 52, a resident of 367 S. Foster, a native of Liberty, Miss., and a Navy veteran of World War II.
Body at Welsh Funeral Home from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and after 8 a.m. Thursday. Religious services at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory with Masonic graveside rites.
Survived by his wife, Mrs. Fern Carlile Knight; his mother, Mrs. Icy Knight, McComb, Miss.; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Gamet, Arcadia, Calif., and Mrs. Patricia Comeau, Sepulveda, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Shrader and Mrs. Julia Pylant, both of Baton Rouge; and two brothers, Charles Knight, Houston, Tex., and Wayne Knight, McComb, Miss.
He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Belen, N.M.
Wednesday, June 24, 1970