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Extracted from The Lake Charles Weekly American-Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Friday, February 14, 1936

W. A. Odom

Oakdale - W.A. Odom, Tulane's famous halfback, died suddenly here this morning from what was thought to be heart failure resulting from overstrain on a trip to New Orleans.

Mr. Odom was taken suddenly ill Thursday afternoon and died early this morning. Doctors were uncertain as to the exact cause of his sudden illness, but it was thought probable that a trip to the meeting of Grand Lodge Masons in New Orleans from which he had just returned overtaxed his heart.

He has been for a number of years an employee of the Hillyer-Deutach Edwards Lumber mill. He was 46 years old.

Funeral services in charge of the Masonic Lodge will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 from the First Baptist church with Rev. C. N. Kimberlin, pastor of the First Baptist church and Rev. W.L. McLeod, pastor of the Presbytertian church officiating.

Surviving Mr. Odom are his wife, his mother, Mrs. Alice Odom, Oakdale a brother Richard of Oakdale, four sisters, Mrs. B A Barland, Mrs. J A Rohner, Mrs. P J Lewis of Oakdale, and Mrs. P E Hughes of Pitkin, three sons W A Odom Jr. student of Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Troy student at Tulane, and James C. of Oakdale, and one daughter Marion of Oakdale.