CHATHAM (Special) — Funeral services for Charles Rudolph Griffith, 68, of Chatham, were held at 2 p.m. today at Chatham Baptist Church with burial in Jonesboro Cemetery under direction of Edmond's Funeral Home of Jonesboro.
Masonic rites were conducted at graveside.
Mr. Griffith died about 12:30 p.m. Monday at his home after a long illness. He was a retired postal carrier, a deacon in Chatham Baptist Church, a 32nd degree mason, and a shriner.
Survivors include his widow, Lena Mae Black Griffith, two sisters, Mrs. Cloy Dell McLeland of Monroe, and Mrs. Paul Miller, Sulphur.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, LA), Tuesday, February 13, 1968
Masonic rites were conducted at graveside.
Mr. Griffith died about 12:30 p.m. Monday at his home after a long illness. He was a retired postal carrier, a deacon in Chatham Baptist Church, a 32nd degree mason, and a shriner.
Survivors include his widow, Lena Mae Black Griffith, two sisters, Mrs. Cloy Dell McLeland of Monroe, and Mrs. Paul Miller, Sulphur.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, LA), Tuesday, February 13, 1968
CHATHAM (Special) — Funeral services for Charles Rudolph Griffith, 68, of Chatham, were held at 2 p.m. today at Chatham Baptist Church with burial in Jonesboro Cemetery under direction of Edmond's Funeral Home of Jonesboro.
Masonic rites were conducted at graveside.
Mr. Griffith died about 12:30 p.m. Monday at his home after a long illness. He was a retired postal carrier, a deacon in Chatham Baptist Church, a 32nd degree mason, and a shriner.
Survivors include his widow, Lena Mae Black Griffith, two sisters, Mrs. Cloy Dell McLeland of Monroe, and Mrs. Paul Miller, Sulphur.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, LA), Tuesday, February 13, 1968
Masonic rites were conducted at graveside.
Mr. Griffith died about 12:30 p.m. Monday at his home after a long illness. He was a retired postal carrier, a deacon in Chatham Baptist Church, a 32nd degree mason, and a shriner.
Survivors include his widow, Lena Mae Black Griffith, two sisters, Mrs. Cloy Dell McLeland of Monroe, and Mrs. Paul Miller, Sulphur.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (Monroe, LA), Tuesday, February 13, 1968
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Despite the fact that his World War II draft registration card gives Chatham, LA as his birth place, the 1900, 1910, 1930, and 1940 censuses all list his place of birth as Alabama.
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