Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, April 5, 1968

Bossier City Produce Man Dies at 48

Funeral services for Stafford Warner, 48, 2102 Clovis St., Bossier City, who died in the Bossier General Hospital at 2:35 p.m. Thursday following a brief illness, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the Bossier City Rose-Neath Funeral Home with the Rev. Tom Cole, assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City, officiating, assisted by the Rev. W. D. Stogner, pastor of the Waller Baptist Church.

Burial will be in the Bossier Parish Hillcrest Cem[e]tery.

A native of Winn Parish, Mr. Warner was a self-employed produce salesman and had resided in Bossier City 25 years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Warner, and his mother, Mrs. Maggie Warner, both of Bossier City; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Ford and Mrs. Wayne Grosjean, both of Bossier City, and Mrs. G. D. Esley, Stockton, Calif.; and two brothers, Clifford Warner and Ben Warner, both of Bossier City.

Pallbearers will be A.H. Teague, T. E. Carroll, James Cathey, Robert Parkman, Cortez Bridges and Cody Beasley.