Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Nov. 28, 1943, Sunday, p. 7:
Roquemore Rites Today – Life-Long Resident of Shreveport Dies of Heart Attack
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. today for Andrew J. Roquemore, 51, of 1137 Dalzell Street, who died yesterday at a local sanitarium following a heart attack a week ago. Services will be conducted by Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of First Baptist Church, at the chapel of McCook Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery with the American Legion conducting last rites.
Mr. Roquemore had been a life-long resident of Shreveport coming here as a small boy when his parents, the late Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Roquemore, moved from Provencal. His father was a well-known physician and druggist here. He was educated in the Shreveport public schools and at St. John's college. He was for a number of years connected with the Roquemore Drug Store at Texas Avenue and Jordan Streets, later, becoming an employe of the city water department during the administration of W. T. Mayo and Bickham Dickson. For the last seven years he had worked for the DeGeneres Company.
He never married and is survived by his sister, Mrs. Ruth R. Hill, with whom he made his home; a brother, Ed J. Roquemore; a nephew, Andrew E. Hill; a niece, Miss Martha Jane Roquemore, all of Shreveport. Active pallbearers will be Harold DeGeneres, Walter White, Will Prudhomme, T. L. Fulton, Jr., Rene Brouett and Harold Robinson.
Honorary pallbearers will be all employes of the DeGeneres Company, Will Mayo, Bickham Dickson, Claudius Dickson, Tom Amiss, J. Howell Flournoy, John McW. Ford, Howard Doll, Charlie Doll, John Doll, Will Paul, Joe Slattery, Arthur Kuarrier, Dr. H. J. Quinn, Dr. E. L. Sanderson, Dr. Walter Mitchell, Dr. J. M. Gorton, Dr. L. H. Pirkle, Dr. Wiltz Ledbetter, Dr. S. W. Boyce, E. A. Tobry, Andrew Querbes, Andrew Beal, Howard Robinson, R. J. Beck, Robert Emery, Jack Gardner, Carl Gardner, George Bryant, George Pinchers, Mr. Odom, John Peyton, Charles Lacey, Chink Fulton, Overton Brooks, Wellborn Jack, Tom Hughes, Lewell Butler, Capt. R. W. Lee, Capt. H. N. Hadwin, Capt. Floyd Kendrick, Fire Chief S. J. Flores, T. B. Lanford, Stanley Wade, Harold Mulkey, Dick Epes of Houston, Texas and Earl Nectoux of New Orleans.
Roquemore Rites Today – Life-Long Resident of Shreveport Dies of Heart Attack
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. today for Andrew J. Roquemore, 51, of 1137 Dalzell Street, who died yesterday at a local sanitarium following a heart attack a week ago. Services will be conducted by Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of First Baptist Church, at the chapel of McCook Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery with the American Legion conducting last rites.
Mr. Roquemore had been a life-long resident of Shreveport coming here as a small boy when his parents, the late Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Roquemore, moved from Provencal. His father was a well-known physician and druggist here. He was educated in the Shreveport public schools and at St. John's college. He was for a number of years connected with the Roquemore Drug Store at Texas Avenue and Jordan Streets, later, becoming an employe of the city water department during the administration of W. T. Mayo and Bickham Dickson. For the last seven years he had worked for the DeGeneres Company.
He never married and is survived by his sister, Mrs. Ruth R. Hill, with whom he made his home; a brother, Ed J. Roquemore; a nephew, Andrew E. Hill; a niece, Miss Martha Jane Roquemore, all of Shreveport. Active pallbearers will be Harold DeGeneres, Walter White, Will Prudhomme, T. L. Fulton, Jr., Rene Brouett and Harold Robinson.
Honorary pallbearers will be all employes of the DeGeneres Company, Will Mayo, Bickham Dickson, Claudius Dickson, Tom Amiss, J. Howell Flournoy, John McW. Ford, Howard Doll, Charlie Doll, John Doll, Will Paul, Joe Slattery, Arthur Kuarrier, Dr. H. J. Quinn, Dr. E. L. Sanderson, Dr. Walter Mitchell, Dr. J. M. Gorton, Dr. L. H. Pirkle, Dr. Wiltz Ledbetter, Dr. S. W. Boyce, E. A. Tobry, Andrew Querbes, Andrew Beal, Howard Robinson, R. J. Beck, Robert Emery, Jack Gardner, Carl Gardner, George Bryant, George Pinchers, Mr. Odom, John Peyton, Charles Lacey, Chink Fulton, Overton Brooks, Wellborn Jack, Tom Hughes, Lewell Butler, Capt. R. W. Lee, Capt. H. N. Hadwin, Capt. Floyd Kendrick, Fire Chief S. J. Flores, T. B. Lanford, Stanley Wade, Harold Mulkey, Dick Epes of Houston, Texas and Earl Nectoux of New Orleans.
Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Nov. 28, 1943, Sunday, p. 7:
Roquemore Rites Today – Life-Long Resident of Shreveport Dies of Heart Attack
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. today for Andrew J. Roquemore, 51, of 1137 Dalzell Street, who died yesterday at a local sanitarium following a heart attack a week ago. Services will be conducted by Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of First Baptist Church, at the chapel of McCook Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery with the American Legion conducting last rites.
Mr. Roquemore had been a life-long resident of Shreveport coming here as a small boy when his parents, the late Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Roquemore, moved from Provencal. His father was a well-known physician and druggist here. He was educated in the Shreveport public schools and at St. John's college. He was for a number of years connected with the Roquemore Drug Store at Texas Avenue and Jordan Streets, later, becoming an employe of the city water department during the administration of W. T. Mayo and Bickham Dickson. For the last seven years he had worked for the DeGeneres Company.
He never married and is survived by his sister, Mrs. Ruth R. Hill, with whom he made his home; a brother, Ed J. Roquemore; a nephew, Andrew E. Hill; a niece, Miss Martha Jane Roquemore, all of Shreveport. Active pallbearers will be Harold DeGeneres, Walter White, Will Prudhomme, T. L. Fulton, Jr., Rene Brouett and Harold Robinson.
Honorary pallbearers will be all employes of the DeGeneres Company, Will Mayo, Bickham Dickson, Claudius Dickson, Tom Amiss, J. Howell Flournoy, John McW. Ford, Howard Doll, Charlie Doll, John Doll, Will Paul, Joe Slattery, Arthur Kuarrier, Dr. H. J. Quinn, Dr. E. L. Sanderson, Dr. Walter Mitchell, Dr. J. M. Gorton, Dr. L. H. Pirkle, Dr. Wiltz Ledbetter, Dr. S. W. Boyce, E. A. Tobry, Andrew Querbes, Andrew Beal, Howard Robinson, R. J. Beck, Robert Emery, Jack Gardner, Carl Gardner, George Bryant, George Pinchers, Mr. Odom, John Peyton, Charles Lacey, Chink Fulton, Overton Brooks, Wellborn Jack, Tom Hughes, Lewell Butler, Capt. R. W. Lee, Capt. H. N. Hadwin, Capt. Floyd Kendrick, Fire Chief S. J. Flores, T. B. Lanford, Stanley Wade, Harold Mulkey, Dick Epes of Houston, Texas and Earl Nectoux of New Orleans.
Roquemore Rites Today – Life-Long Resident of Shreveport Dies of Heart Attack
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. today for Andrew J. Roquemore, 51, of 1137 Dalzell Street, who died yesterday at a local sanitarium following a heart attack a week ago. Services will be conducted by Dr. M. E. Dodd, pastor of First Baptist Church, at the chapel of McCook Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery with the American Legion conducting last rites.
Mr. Roquemore had been a life-long resident of Shreveport coming here as a small boy when his parents, the late Dr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Roquemore, moved from Provencal. His father was a well-known physician and druggist here. He was educated in the Shreveport public schools and at St. John's college. He was for a number of years connected with the Roquemore Drug Store at Texas Avenue and Jordan Streets, later, becoming an employe of the city water department during the administration of W. T. Mayo and Bickham Dickson. For the last seven years he had worked for the DeGeneres Company.
He never married and is survived by his sister, Mrs. Ruth R. Hill, with whom he made his home; a brother, Ed J. Roquemore; a nephew, Andrew E. Hill; a niece, Miss Martha Jane Roquemore, all of Shreveport. Active pallbearers will be Harold DeGeneres, Walter White, Will Prudhomme, T. L. Fulton, Jr., Rene Brouett and Harold Robinson.
Honorary pallbearers will be all employes of the DeGeneres Company, Will Mayo, Bickham Dickson, Claudius Dickson, Tom Amiss, J. Howell Flournoy, John McW. Ford, Howard Doll, Charlie Doll, John Doll, Will Paul, Joe Slattery, Arthur Kuarrier, Dr. H. J. Quinn, Dr. E. L. Sanderson, Dr. Walter Mitchell, Dr. J. M. Gorton, Dr. L. H. Pirkle, Dr. Wiltz Ledbetter, Dr. S. W. Boyce, E. A. Tobry, Andrew Querbes, Andrew Beal, Howard Robinson, R. J. Beck, Robert Emery, Jack Gardner, Carl Gardner, George Bryant, George Pinchers, Mr. Odom, John Peyton, Charles Lacey, Chink Fulton, Overton Brooks, Wellborn Jack, Tom Hughes, Lewell Butler, Capt. R. W. Lee, Capt. H. N. Hadwin, Capt. Floyd Kendrick, Fire Chief S. J. Flores, T. B. Lanford, Stanley Wade, Harold Mulkey, Dick Epes of Houston, Texas and Earl Nectoux of New Orleans.
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ANDREW J. ROQUEMORE, JR.
OCT. 2, 1891
(American Legion emblem)
NOV. 27, 1943
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