This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------589CC69F46BE2D17ED2BF260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------589CC69F46BE2D17ED2BF260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="pelz51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="pelz51.txt" Obituaries: Herman Pelz, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: May 3, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise Herman Pelz, 77, Native of Germany Died Here Apr. 26 Herman Pelz, 77, head machinist for the Tremont and Gulf Railway Machine Shops for 30 years, died at a local hospital at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, April 26, after a long illness. Funeral services were conducted at the Southern Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Alwin Stokes, assisted by Rev. P. M. Caraway, officiated. Burial was in Boggachitto, Miss., Friday afternoon. Employees of the Tremont and Gulf Railway acted as pallbearers. Born in Kingdom County, Saxton Markneuiken, Germany, June 3, 1874, Mr. Pelz came to the United States at the age of 13 with his family. He lived and worked in the north and later settled in Mississippi where he married. He had been a resident of Winnfield for about 34 years. His wife preceded him in death four years ago. For the past two years or more he had made his home with the R. L. Kraft family, Route 2, Winnfield. He is survived by a brother in Wisconsin and a sister in Chicago. --------------589CC69F46BE2D17ED2BF260--