----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Mendez" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:55 AM Subject: Re: W.I. Winn obit - 1941 > W.I. Winn > > Shelbyville Gazette, Aug 7, 1941, page 1 > > W.I. Winn Dies Of Paralytic Stroke > > W.I. Winn, 77, died Tuesday morning at his home here of a paralytic > stroke, suffered two days earlier. He had been in declining health > several years. > > Besides serving as a city policeman, he had also been a deputy sheriff of > Bedford County and a constable of the Seventh District. After he retired > from public service he spent much of his time constructing hand made doll > furniture, some of it copied from authentic antiques and much of it hand > carved. > > Winn was born and educated in Bedford County and spent almost his entire > life here. He was the son of J.W. Winn and Isabella Martin Winn. > > Pending the arrival from New York of Members of his family, the funeral > arrangements are not complete as this newspaper goes to press. Rev. N. > Burch Tucker will officiate at the Hoover Funeral Home and active > pallbearers will be Matthew Shearin, Levoy Mullins, R.A. Taylor, Ed Nance, > Fred Nance and Guy Hoover; honorary pall bearers will be Ed Maupin, H.B. > Cowan, Dr. T.R. Ray, Eugene Hix, C.P. Adams, H.H. Jones, and Will R. > Haynes. Burial will be in Willow Mount Cemetery. > > Survivors are his wife, six sons, John B. Winn, Beechfort N.Y. Horace, > Syracuse, N.Y., Robert, Dallas, Texas, Homer, Chattanooga, Elgin, > Shelbyville and Ollie, unknown. He has three sisters surviving, Mrs. > Isadore Primrose in California; Mrs. Fannie Ezell, Chapel Hill, and Mrs. > Mary Maupin, Rover. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Gigon > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:48 PM > Subject: obits > > > can i please get the whole obit for > winn,w i aug 7,1941 pg 1 this is my great grandfather > thank you > linda gigon > ny > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ______________________________