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Dr Charles Spurgeon Boone

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Dr Charles Spurgeon Boone Veteran

Birth
St. Marys, Perth County, Ontario, Canada
Death
15 Mar 1960 (aged 66)
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Obituary from the Shreveport Journal newspaper, March 16, 1960, Wednesday, pp. 1-A & 2-A:

Dr. Boone Rites To Be Thursday – Heart Ailment Fatal to Parish Coroner

Funeral services for Dr. Charles S. Boone, 66, of 225 Patton St., chief deputy Caddo Parish coroner and a resident here for the past 35 years, who died Tuesday at 6 p.m., will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Broadmoor Baptist Church.

Dr. Scott Tatum, pastor of the church will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Park under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home. The body will lie in state at the Broadmoor Baptist Church from 12 noon until hour for the rites.

Active pallbearers will be Harold Mays, C. L. Terry, Sam Peters, W. H. Runyon, Charles Harbuck, Burnie Porter, Dr. W. R. Mathews and William E. Bradford.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish coroner, Dr. E. P. Ferguson and Dr. Stuart DeLee, deputy coroners, and Dr. S. L. Gill, Dr. J. E. Knighton, staff members of the Willis-Knighton Clinic, deacons and directors of the board of the Broadmoor Baptist Church and members of the Shreveport Medical Society.

Was Chief Deputy

Dr. Boone died in Willis-Knighton Hospital of a heart ailment.

Dr. Boone, in addition to being chief deputy coroner, also practiced medicine here.

In addition to being a member of the Broadmoor Baptist Church he was a deacon and member of the board of directors of the church and was a teacher of the Fellowship Class of the Sunday School.

Dr. Boone, who had been with the Caddo coroner's office for the past 21 years, had been in critical condition since Thursday when he was hospitalized. He had suffered a previous heart attack several years ago and had a "noticeable heart condition for the past two or three years," according to Dr. Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish coroner.

"He was a wonderful man, a fine doctor and left many friends," Dr. Butler commented shortly after learning of Dr. Boone's death.

Native of Canada

Dr. Boone was a native of St. Mary's Ontario, Canada. He was a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I.

He attended high school in Saginaw, Mich., received his academic education at Washington University and received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Arkansas in 1929.

He was licensed to practice medicine in three states, Arkansas, Arizona and Louisiana. He received his Louisiana license in 1932, and did his internship at the Charity Hospital in Shreveport.

He had been on the staff of the Confederate Memorial Hospital here, Arkansas Children's Hospital and the Miami-Inspiration Hospital.

Before moving to Shreveport 35 years ago Dr. Boone had lived in St. Louis, Mo.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alyne Harris Boone; two sons, Robert Harris Boone and Charles Stuart Gordon Boone, all of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Sentenne, of Alton, Ill., and Mrs. F. W. Bromm of Saginaw, Mich.
Obituary from the Shreveport Journal newspaper, March 16, 1960, Wednesday, pp. 1-A & 2-A:

Dr. Boone Rites To Be Thursday – Heart Ailment Fatal to Parish Coroner

Funeral services for Dr. Charles S. Boone, 66, of 225 Patton St., chief deputy Caddo Parish coroner and a resident here for the past 35 years, who died Tuesday at 6 p.m., will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Broadmoor Baptist Church.

Dr. Scott Tatum, pastor of the church will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Park under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home. The body will lie in state at the Broadmoor Baptist Church from 12 noon until hour for the rites.

Active pallbearers will be Harold Mays, C. L. Terry, Sam Peters, W. H. Runyon, Charles Harbuck, Burnie Porter, Dr. W. R. Mathews and William E. Bradford.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish coroner, Dr. E. P. Ferguson and Dr. Stuart DeLee, deputy coroners, and Dr. S. L. Gill, Dr. J. E. Knighton, staff members of the Willis-Knighton Clinic, deacons and directors of the board of the Broadmoor Baptist Church and members of the Shreveport Medical Society.

Was Chief Deputy

Dr. Boone died in Willis-Knighton Hospital of a heart ailment.

Dr. Boone, in addition to being chief deputy coroner, also practiced medicine here.

In addition to being a member of the Broadmoor Baptist Church he was a deacon and member of the board of directors of the church and was a teacher of the Fellowship Class of the Sunday School.

Dr. Boone, who had been with the Caddo coroner's office for the past 21 years, had been in critical condition since Thursday when he was hospitalized. He had suffered a previous heart attack several years ago and had a "noticeable heart condition for the past two or three years," according to Dr. Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish coroner.

"He was a wonderful man, a fine doctor and left many friends," Dr. Butler commented shortly after learning of Dr. Boone's death.

Native of Canada

Dr. Boone was a native of St. Mary's Ontario, Canada. He was a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I.

He attended high school in Saginaw, Mich., received his academic education at Washington University and received his doctorate in medicine at the University of Arkansas in 1929.

He was licensed to practice medicine in three states, Arkansas, Arizona and Louisiana. He received his Louisiana license in 1932, and did his internship at the Charity Hospital in Shreveport.

He had been on the staff of the Confederate Memorial Hospital here, Arkansas Children's Hospital and the Miami-Inspiration Hospital.

Before moving to Shreveport 35 years ago Dr. Boone had lived in St. Louis, Mo.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alyne Harris Boone; two sons, Robert Harris Boone and Charles Stuart Gordon Boone, all of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Sentenne, of Alton, Ill., and Mrs. F. W. Bromm of Saginaw, Mich.


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