This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SEITZ COLE CROPPER CHEATHAM SIMAR Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DCB.2ACE/196 Message Board Post: Capt. Canton Seitz, 55, of the Jefferson highway, died this morning at 8 o'clock at Our Lady of the Lake sanitarium following an illness of several months. He was a native of this city. Captain Seitz spent most of his life on the Mississippi and for the past 20 years he has been connected with the literage department ofthe Stardard Oil company. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Rabenhorst parlors, with services at the Sacred Heart Catholic church. Interment will be in the Roselawn cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Ernestine COLE CROPPER SEITZ: a son, Canton P., Jr.: one daughter Mrs. Buford CHEATHAM of Beaumont, Tex.: two sisters, Mrs. Bert SIMAR of Iota, La., and Miss Vallie SEITZ of Baton Rouge. end. StateTimes 30 Jan 1942, Baton Rouge, La. pg 5B.