Charbonneau Rites Set Friday
Funeral services for William Fielding Charbonneau, 82, known as the "patriarch of Lake Worth," will be at 2:30 p. m. Friday in Shannon Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood.
Rev. Gaston Foote and Rev. Jim Watson will officiate.
Charbonneau died Wednesday at his home, 4400 Boat Club Rd.
Born on farmland some of which is now part of Lake Worth reservoir and Carswell Air Force Base, Charbonneau won the name "patriarch of Lake Worth" in 1963 from the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
He was a longtime stockman and business man and was graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. He was offered a fellowship to the University of California but returned to Fort Worth to ranch.
Charbonneau raised Perceron horses and cattle. Until 1940 he sold and exhibited his horses throughout the country.
His father, William Charbonneau, and an uncle, Napoleon Charbonneau, settled in Tarrant County in 1878 after coming from Massachusetts.
Charbonneau was tutored by his mother and did not attend formal school until he was 14. He attended Ellis Elementary School and later was graduated from old Fort Worth University.
He was a member of Lake Worth Methodist Church, Harvard Alumni Club, Lake Worth School Board and Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Ed Johnson of Fort Worth, and two grandchildren.
Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) - Thursday, February 25, 1965.
Funeral services for William Fielding Charbonneau, 82, known as the "patriarch of Lake Worth," will be at 2:30 p. m. Friday in Shannon Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood.
Rev. Gaston Foote and Rev. Jim Watson will officiate.
Charbonneau died Wednesday at his home, 4400 Boat Club Rd.
Born on farmland some of which is now part of Lake Worth reservoir and Carswell Air Force Base, Charbonneau won the name "patriarch of Lake Worth" in 1963 from the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
He was a longtime stockman and business man and was graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. He was offered a fellowship to the University of California but returned to Fort Worth to ranch.
Charbonneau raised Perceron horses and cattle. Until 1940 he sold and exhibited his horses throughout the country.
His father, William Charbonneau, and an uncle, Napoleon Charbonneau, settled in Tarrant County in 1878 after coming from Massachusetts.
Charbonneau was tutored by his mother and did not attend formal school until he was 14. He attended Ellis Elementary School and later was graduated from old Fort Worth University.
He was a member of Lake Worth Methodist Church, Harvard Alumni Club, Lake Worth School Board and Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Ed Johnson of Fort Worth, and two grandchildren.
Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) - Thursday, February 25, 1965.
Charbonneau Rites Set Friday
Funeral services for William Fielding Charbonneau, 82, known as the "patriarch of Lake Worth," will be at 2:30 p. m. Friday in Shannon Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood.
Rev. Gaston Foote and Rev. Jim Watson will officiate.
Charbonneau died Wednesday at his home, 4400 Boat Club Rd.
Born on farmland some of which is now part of Lake Worth reservoir and Carswell Air Force Base, Charbonneau won the name "patriarch of Lake Worth" in 1963 from the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
He was a longtime stockman and business man and was graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. He was offered a fellowship to the University of California but returned to Fort Worth to ranch.
Charbonneau raised Perceron horses and cattle. Until 1940 he sold and exhibited his horses throughout the country.
His father, William Charbonneau, and an uncle, Napoleon Charbonneau, settled in Tarrant County in 1878 after coming from Massachusetts.
Charbonneau was tutored by his mother and did not attend formal school until he was 14. He attended Ellis Elementary School and later was graduated from old Fort Worth University.
He was a member of Lake Worth Methodist Church, Harvard Alumni Club, Lake Worth School Board and Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Ed Johnson of Fort Worth, and two grandchildren.
Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) - Thursday, February 25, 1965.
Funeral services for William Fielding Charbonneau, 82, known as the "patriarch of Lake Worth," will be at 2:30 p. m. Friday in Shannon Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Greenwood.
Rev. Gaston Foote and Rev. Jim Watson will officiate.
Charbonneau died Wednesday at his home, 4400 Boat Club Rd.
Born on farmland some of which is now part of Lake Worth reservoir and Carswell Air Force Base, Charbonneau won the name "patriarch of Lake Worth" in 1963 from the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
He was a longtime stockman and business man and was graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. He was offered a fellowship to the University of California but returned to Fort Worth to ranch.
Charbonneau raised Perceron horses and cattle. Until 1940 he sold and exhibited his horses throughout the country.
His father, William Charbonneau, and an uncle, Napoleon Charbonneau, settled in Tarrant County in 1878 after coming from Massachusetts.
Charbonneau was tutored by his mother and did not attend formal school until he was 14. He attended Ellis Elementary School and later was graduated from old Fort Worth University.
He was a member of Lake Worth Methodist Church, Harvard Alumni Club, Lake Worth School Board and Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Ed Johnson of Fort Worth, and two grandchildren.
Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) - Thursday, February 25, 1965.
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