This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/555.3 Message Board Post: NOTES: TAKEN FROM LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS THURSDAY OCT. 20, 1949 GIVEN CLEAR WEATHER AND TOO MUCH DAMPNESS UNDERFOOT SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO ASSEMBLE IN FRONT OF 225 BROAD STREET AT 6 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING FOR THE FORMAL OPENING OF MR. AND MRS. W.L. PATERNOSTRO'S NEW LYRIC THEATER. TWO SPECIAL MAN-ON-THE STREE RADIO PROGRAMS WILL FEATURE THE OUTDOOR PHASE OF THE FORMAL OPENING, FOLLOWING WHICH THE FIRST SHOW TO BE PRESENTED AT THE NEW THEATER WILL START INSIDE. FOR THE OPENING, THE PATERNOSTRO'S--WHO ALSO OWN THE PALACE AND DELTA THEATERS HERE--HAVE SELECTED "WHEN A GIRL'S BEAUTIFUL," BILLED AS A "WOLF'S EYE VIEW OF THE MODEL AGENCY WORLD." CONSTRUCTED AT A COST OF MORE THAN $350.000, THE NEW THEATER HAS BEEN TERMED ONE OF THE MOST MODERN AND ORIGINAL IN DESIGN THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. IT WAS BUILT BY T. MILLER AND SONS FROM PLANS DRAWN UP BY GABRIEL AND REAMES, LAKE CHARLES ARCHITECTS. NAMED IN CONTEST NAMED THE "LYRIC", BY MRS. DORTHY M. SHOTWELL AFTER A LOCAL CONTEST WAS CONDUCTED, THE NEW THEATER'S DESIGN FOLLOWS THE NAME'S THEME THROUGHOUT ITS DECORATION. THE HUGE NEON SIGN IN FRONT OF THE STRUCTURE IS TOPPED BY AN IMMENSE REPLICA OF A LYRE, AND MUSICAL NOTES LIGHT UP ALL AROUND THE MARQUEE AND SIGNS. THE SAME MOTIF IS CARRIED OUT ON THE THEATER INTERIOR WHERE LYRE-LIKE LIGHTING FIXTURES CAST AN INDIRECT LIGHT OVER THE PASTEL-SHAPED WALLS, AISLES AND LOBBY. COMPLETELY FIRE PROFF, EVEN TO THE HEAVY VICTORIAN CURTAINS WHICH SET OFF THE STAGE AND SCREEN THE BUILDING IS AIR CONDITIONED AND HAS SPECIAL ACCOUSTICAL ARRANGEMENTS WHICH REDUCE NOISES AND INCREASE THE AUDIBILITY OF SHOWS BEING PRESENTED. SEATS 1,500 APART FROM THE DESIGN AND EQUIPMENT OF THE BUILDING, THE PATERNOSTRO'S ARE PARTICULARLY PROUD OF THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS AND OF THE SEAT THEMSELVES. CONSTRUCTED TO SEAT APPROXIMATELY 1,500 PERSONS, THE THEATER'S APECIAL SEATING SYSTEM IS AIMED AT INCREASING THE COMFORT OF THE SHOW-GOER. THE INDIVIDUAL SEATS ARE OF A SPECIAL SOFT SPONGE RUBBER, COVERED WITH UPHOLATERING LEATHER. OTHER FEATURES AIMED AT THE COMFORT AND CONVIENCE OF THE PATRONS INCLUDE A FREE TELEPHONE SERVICE, IN THE LOBBY AND A SODA FOUNTAIN AND CANDY COUNTER. ELECTRICAL WORK ON THE THEATER WAS DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, AND INSTALLED BY THE LAKE CHARLES ELECTRIC COMPANY. THE AIR CONDITIONING , WHICH WAS FURNISHED AND INSTALLED BY THE AIR CONDUIT COMPANY, CONSISTS OF TWO 40-TON UNITS WHICH ARE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER, ASSURING CONTINUOUS SERVICE OF AIR CONDITIONING AT ALL TIMES. THE PAINTING WORK WAS DONE BY BREAUX AND SONS, AND THE PLUMBING BY D.L. JOHNSON, BOTH OF LAKE CHARLES. HOPE THIS HELP GOOD LUCK, STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/555.2 Message Board Post: NOTE: TAKEN FROM LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS MARCH 31, 1986 PAGE 2 SERVICES TO BE TUESDAY FOR MRS. PATERNOSTRO FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. RITA P. PATERNOSTRO, 87 OF 1219 11TH STREET WILL BE AT 11 A.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, FROM IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHEDRAL. THE REV. VINCENT DEDITA WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF HIXSON FUNERAL HOME. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 2-10 P.M. TODAY, MARCH 30, WITH A ROSARY AT 7P.M. MRS. PATERNOSTRO DIED AT 5:50 A.M. SUNDAY IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF LAKE CHARLES AND A MEMBER OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH. IN 1933, SHE AND HER HUSBAND, WILLIAM L. PATERNOSTRO, BOUGHT THE OLD PALACE THEATER, WHICH HAD BEEN GUTTED BY FIRE. THEY LATER REPAIRED AND REOPENED THAT THEATER, AND OPEN OTHERS IN 1941 AND 1949. SURVIORS INCLUDE 2 DAUGHTERS, MRS. JOSIE CLARK AND MRS. ROSE CALONGE, BOTH OF LAKE CHARLES, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND 15 GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. IF THEY WISH, FRIENDS MAY MAKE MEMORIAL DONATIONS TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION BUILDING FUND, FAMILY SAID. HOPE THIS HELP, GOOD LUCK STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/555.1 Message Board Post: NOTE: TAKEN FROM LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS WEDNEDAY 10-30-1974 PATERNOSTRO FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY FUNERAL SERVICES FOR WILLIAM LEE PATERNOSTRO 76, OF 1219 11TH STREET, OWNER OF THE LYRIC THEATER, WILL BE AT 11 A.M. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, FROM ST. MARGARET CATHOLIC CHURCH. A ROSARY WILL BE SAID AT 7 P.M. TODAY OCTOBER 30, IN THE HIXON FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL. BURIAL WILL BE IJN GRACELAND CEMETERY. MR. PATERNOSTRO DIED AT 6:15 P.M. TUESDAY IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS ACTIVE IN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THEATER OWNERS. HE HAD OWNED AND OPERATED THE DELTA THEATER AND THE OLD PALACE THEATER. HE HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS IN LAKE CHARLES FOR 40 YEARS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GREATER LAKE CHARLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE MRS. RITA PERLO PATERNOSTRO; 2 DAUGHTERS, JOSIE L. CLARK AND MRS. ROSE COLOGNE BOTH OF LAKE CHARLES 1 BROTHER, CHARLES PATERNOSTRO OF NEW ORLEANS, LA. 1 SISTER MRS. ROSE CONSUNADO OF LAKE CHARLES, 4 HALF BROTHERS, FRANK, LEWIS, TONY AND PETE BRUNO ALL OF LAKE CHARLES; 8 GRANDCHILDREN AND 6 GREAT GRAND CHILDREN

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: CHARITY, I FIGURED THAT TOO, THAT IF ELIZABETH DIED A FEW DAYS AFTER JOHNNIE BIRTH THEN SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTED IN THE DEATH INDEX, AS LONG AS IT WAS AFTER THE LATE 1890 TO PRESENT. AND CERTAINLY HER HUSBAND ALSO HAS TO BE. STACEY I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I WILL TRY AGAIN, AND POSSIBLY CHECK OUT THE COURT HOUSE FOR A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, IF THE TWO WERE MARRIED IN CALCASIEU PARISH, I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED. STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: If you can possibly find out anything about Johnnie's birth there her birthdate was May 11, 1922, her mother died 2 days later and her father died 5 mos. later. She was sent to a sister (step or half) in Tyler, TX. Sister, Maudie, already had 5 kids so sent Johnnie to orphanage in Waco, TX. Then Johnnie ran off and married barber's son from there in about 1935 or so. Johnnie was born Johnnie LaVerne Brown. Even if you could find the slightest bit I could get a birth certificate or something. Thanks a bunch. Charity Smithson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: (->) We don't know too much ourselves. Johnnie's last husband found out what he could in abt 1967 or 68. He didn't write anything down. (!!) So we're having to rely on his memory. Could you possibly find out anything about Johnnie being born there in Lake Charles? If not, thank you anyway. Don't really know what else to tell you. Elizabeth and Virgil were probably an older couple cause Johnnie was sent to live with a sister who already had 5 kids when Johnnie was born. I really wish I could help out more but we don't have too much at all to go on. Thanks for all your help!!!! Charity

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: We know Johnnie didn't die there because she died here in Ft. Smith, AR in 1994. Didn't know if you could find out anything about birth there or not. Supposedly born there. Elizabeth and Virgil we thought died there because Elizabeth died 2 days after Johnnie born. So figured she died in hospital while still there from birth. We figured Virgil died there because he died only 5 mos. later of kidney disease. Heard that Elizabeth and Virgil's graves moved to somewhere else a while back to be near rest of family (wherever that may be). Don't have whole lot of info. to give. We don't (next email->)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/580.1 Message Board Post: TAKEN OUT OF LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS AUGUST 20, 1977 PAGE 2 JAY MEADOWS DIED AUGUST 19, 1977 DEQUINCY, LA. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JAY MEADOWS, 85, WILL BE AT 2:00P.M.. SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 AT THE BETHEHEM PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH. ELDER LYNNWOOD JACOBS WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL WILL BE IN CANNON CEMETERY IN MERRYVILLE, LA. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SNIDER FUNERAL HOME. MR. MEADOWS DIED AT NOON FRIDAY. HE HAD LIVED IN DEQUINCY FOR 45 YEARS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH, AND WAS A MASON. SURVIVORS ARE 1 SON LIONEL MEADOWS OF WHEATON, MD. 1 SISTER MRS. CURTIS JACOBS OF FIELD, LA. 1 BROTHER LLYOD MEADOWS OF GREENSBURG, LA SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRANCHILDREN. HOPE THIS HELP, STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.3.1.1 Message Board Post: SORRY, I WISH I COULD HAVE HELP, THE ONLY WAY THAT I KNOW OF IS TO SEND OFF FOR AN DEATH CERTIFICATE TO: VITAL RECORDS REGISTRY OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 325 LOYOLA AVENUE NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70112 THE COST IS $7.00 BIRTH RECORDS: 15.OO (CAN BE EXPENSIVE) OLDER BIRTH AND DEATH RECORDS CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH THE LOUISIANA STATE ARCHIVES P.O.BOX 94125 BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70804 (504) 568-5152 CALL TO VERTIFY FEES, THIS CAN BE EXPENSIVE, THATS WHY I DON'T MIND HELPING PEOPLE, BECAUSE SOME ONE HAS HELP ME! THE ONLY OTHER THING I SUGGEST IS TO GO TO DERIDDER PARISH, AND ASK FOR SOMEBODY TO LOOK IT UP FOR YOU, THERES NICE PEOPLE OUT THERE. I WILL KEEP CHECKING, WHEN I GO BACK TO THE LIBRARY, I WILL ASK THE LIBRARIAN. MAYBE SHE CAN HELP. STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, Stacy. Terrell is indeed my distant cousin. I have talked with him recently on the telephone. However, I did not get all the detail concerning his father's family. I appreciate your sending it to me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: DID A LOOKUP TODAY AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUND ABOUT 4 JOHNNIE BROWNS, NO ELIZABETH OR VIRGIL, CAN YOU GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE INFO. ANYTHING THAT COULD HELP. STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.3.1 Message Board Post: Stacy, Thanks for looking. I'm sure that he died in Lake Charles. However, his residence at the time according to the death certificate was De Ridder, Beauregard Parish. I guess he didn't have a Calcasieu obituary. Do you know how I can look in Beauregard? He was buried in Cooper Cemetery, Merryville.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/565.1 Message Board Post: TAKEN FROM LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS 11-03-1962 PAGE 10 MICROFILM # 521 MRS. G.G. MANN MRS. GRETHEN G. MANN, 81, A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF LAKE CHARLES DIED IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON OCTOBER 24. MRS, MANN, A NATIVE OF ILLINOIS, LIVED IN LAKE CHARLES FOR MOST OF HER LIFE. SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF RETIRED REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES C. MANN AND AN AUNT OF MRS. OTHAL GRANT, FORMERLY OF LAKE CHARLES AND NOW OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. MRS. MANN MOVED TO WASHINGTON ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO. HOPE THIS HELP, SINCERELY, STACY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.3 Message Board Post: SUE, IS THIS THE CORRECT SPELLING OF THIS PERSON LAST NAME? HARRY CECIL HOLADAY DATE OF DEATH SEPT. 19, 1964. ARE YOU SURE HE DIED IN CALCASIEU PARISH, I LOOK UP HIS NAME, BUT WAS UNABLE TO FIND HIM. PLEASE IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE INFO. ON HIM. WHAT ABOUT HIS WIFE NAME? BROTHERS, OR SISTERS? STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: INFORMATION TAKEN OUT OF LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS ON 12-23OR 24- 1975 WALTER YOUN 82, DIED 11:45 AM SUNDAY IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL. A NATIVE OF ABBEVILLE, LOUISIANA, LIVED IN MOSS BLUFF, LA. FOR 70 YEARS. OWNED AND OPERATED YOUNG'S SERVICE STATION IN GOOSPORT. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: MILDRED YOUNG(WIFE) 1 SON, TERRELL YOUNG (LAKE CHARLES) 3 BROTHERS, CLYDE, LOREE YOUNG (LAKE CHARLES) RUSSEL YOUNG (ALEXANDRIA, LA.) 1 SISTER LIZZIE SIRMAN (ABBEVILLE, LA.) 5 GRAND CHILDREN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAKE CHARLES AMERICAN PRESS FRIDAY 3-28-1980 PAGE 2 MILDRED YOUNG (MOSS BLUFF, LA) FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MILDRED BRIGGS(MAIDEN NAME) MOORE, 75 WILL BE AT 2:00P.M. TODAY, MARCH 28, 1980, IN HIXON FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL IN MOSS BLUFF. REV CLAUDE E BARRON WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL WILL BE IN RITCHIE CEMENTARY. MRS. YOUNG WAS A NATIVE AND LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. SHE DIED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN HER HOME. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 1 SON TERRELL YOUNG OF LAKE CHARLES, 5 GRAND CHILDREN AND SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE NOTES ON THE YOUNG FAMILY: I HAVE A TERRELL YOUNG, LISTED IN MY 2002 TELEPHONE BOOK, SINCE I DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION, I CAN TELL YOU THIS JUST DIAL INFOMATION FOR LAKE CHARLES, LA. CALCASIEU PARISH AND ASK FOR HIS NAME. HINT-- HE LIVES IN MOSS BLUFF, ALSO THERE IS A NELL AND TERRELL IN WESTLAKE (POSSIBLE HIS SON AND DAUGHTER-N-LAW) GOOD LUCK! GIRL I FOUND A LOREE YOUNG ALSO, LIVES ON LOURDEES DRIVE, OH BY THE WAY TERREL STAYS ON BOZO RD IN MOSS BLUFF. JUST A HINT, GOOD LUCK SINCERELY, STACEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/573.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much! Anything would help. Charity

----- Original Message ----- From: <LACALCAS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <LACALCAS-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: LACALCAS-D Digest V02 #83 Stacy, My gr-uncle, Edward Huggins, was killed sometime shortly before the 1900 census was taken. I do not know if he lived in Oakdale, or not. One of my father's brothers, Charles Thompson, lived there. That is why I was curious about the murder that has been mentioned. I contacted the lady, who reported on that and she gave me the name of the person, who had been killed, and it was not Edward Huggins. I have been in contact with Uncle Edward's gr-daughter and she said that she had found out about it on a roll of tape (whatever you call them) at the library, but she did not tell me which one and I have lost contact with her. I would like to find out about what happened. If you could tell me where it can be found, perhaps I can find it here in Houston at Clayton Library. I have been told that it is the 2nd or 3rd library in U.S. Thank you for anything you can do for me. Frances

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/581 Message Board Post: Four Winds Tribe of La Pow Wow {Contest} Oct 26=27 DeRidder, La Fair Grounds American Indian Crafts Vendors, also food available Dancers from surrounding states Some of the best dancers, you will see Gates open at 9:00, both days Come get to know our warm friendly people

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/568.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: After going through my notes, their was no Lucy Fault in your family, I thought that I would be doing research on about 10 families a week, but find myself doing a little more. Sorry about that. Stacey