Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Final Rites For T. MacClendon Are Held Today
Last rites for Travis MacClendon, 55, of 1606 Emerson St., Monroe, were in Grace Episcopal Church at 3:30 p.m. today with the Rev. W. Bradley Trimble officiating.
Burial was in Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe under direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Monroe.
Mr. MacClendon was found dead Sunday from a gunshot wound, described by investigating police as “apparently self-inflicted.”
Mr. MacClendon had been a resident of Monroe for 14 years. He was a Senior Forester was Olin, a member of Grace Episcopal Church, the Society of American Foresters, the Forest Farmers Association, the American Pulpwood Association, and the Louisiana Forester Association.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Virginia MacClendon, Monroe; a daughter, Miss Mary Lou MacClendon of Aschaffenburg, West Germany; a son, Capt. Travis MacClendon Jr. of Oahu, Hawaii; a brother, Clayton MacClendon of Coral Gables, Fla.; two sisters, Miss Robertine MacClendon of Savannah, Ga., and Mrs. Margaret Timberlake of Columbia, S.C.
Pallbearers were L. C. Ewing, Hy Bango, Ralph Law, E. A. Freeman, Christie Roberts, A. B. Smith, Bill Oliver and Ralph Caldwell.
Tuesday, March 26, 1968