John J. Doles
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John Jones Doles, Sr. was a banker in Plain Dealing
in northern Bossier Parish
who served in the Louisiana State Senate
from 1952 to 1956, the tenure corresponding with the administration of Governor Robert F. Kennon
. Doles had been a roommate at Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge of future Governor Earl Kemp Long
, but as an independent Democrat
in the Senate, he often clashed with his still personal friend Long. On leaving the Senate, Doles was from 1956 to 1957 the president of the Louisiana Bankers Association.
Doles was born to Robert Samuel Doles (1856–1931), a farmer
originally from Bossier Parish, and the former Adele Dorcas McClenaghan (1862–1897), a native of Darlington County, South Carolina
. Young John Doles had turned two when his mother died a day before what would have been her 35th birthday. Robert Samuel Doles did not remarry but reared John and four other sons alone. Robert and Adele Doles are interred at Cottage Grove Cemetery near Benton
, the seat of Bossier Parish. Doles wed the former Madge Wyche (October 21, 1901—October 24, 1993), the daughter of Hammiter Wyche and the former Roberta Mears (1872–1973). The couple had one child, John J. Doles, Jr. (January 6, 1923—April 16, 2004).
Doles procured his Bachelor of Science
degree from LSU in sugar
chemistry
. He served in France
during World War I
. Rather than pursuing a career as a chemist, Doles went into banking in his native Plain Dealing, where he became until his death the long-term president of First State Bank and Trust, subsequently absorbed by Regions Bank. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Plain Dealing.
Plain Dealing is known for its abundant dogwood
trees, which bloom in the early spring. A citizens group known as the Plain Dealing Dogwood Association headed by the school principal Fred G. Phillips (1907–1989) organized an annual festival to showcase the trees to visitors. John and Madge Doles were active in the association. In the first festival held in the spring of 1951, Doles invited Governor Earl Long as the marshal
of the event.
Having solidified a career in banking, Doles was elected in the Democratic primary in January 1952, to a single term in the state Senate when the incumbent
Drayton Rogers Boucher
(1908–1983) of nearby Springhill
in northern Webster Parish, a Long ally, declined to seek a fourth four-year term. Doles defeated Herman "Wimpy" Jones
, a Bossier City
and Minden
businessman who would succeed him in 1956, after a single term in the state Senate. In 1954, Senator Doles supported right-to-work legislation endorsed by the Kennon administration. He was physically attacked though uninjured on the Senate floor by a representative of organized labor. In a tumultuous session, right-to-work passed, but it was repealed two years later in 1956 in the last Long administration through the work of Victor Bussie
, the newly installed president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO
. Twenty years later, in 1976, right-to-work was resurrected in the second term of Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. After his Senate service, Doles returned to his banking business full-time. To succeed Senator Doles, "Wimpy" Jones, who carried the Long factional backing, narrowly defeated fellow Democrat Harold Montgomery
, a businessman and former educator from Doyline
in south Webster Parish.
After his Senate tenure, Doles served two terms, from 1956 to 1970, as a member of the LSU Board of Supervisors. He was the chairman of the board after the 1961 football
season, when the popular coach
Paul Dietzel
resigned on January 5, 1962, to accept the head position at the United States Military Academy
at West Point
, New York
, a position that Dietzel left after four years.
During World War II
, Madge Doles had launched Doles Insurance Company from a desk within the bank. After the war, the insurance company was run by John Doles, Jr., who also succeeded his father as president of First State Bank. The agency, still named "Doles Insurance", was later purchased by Plain Dealing civic leader Wayne Theodore Davis (born June 28, 1929) and is operated by Davis' son, Gregory Wayne Davis. Davis was honored by the Louisiana House of Representatives
on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
(a state senator from 1928 to 1932 and LBA president from 1948 to 1949), J. A. "Sonny" Dunnam, Jr., of Benton (1966–1967), and Will C. Hubbard (born 1946) of Citizen’s Bank in Bossier City, who served from 1997 to 1998.
Doles was affiliated with First State Bank and Doles Insurance Company and Discus Oil Company, both at 301 East Palmetto Avenue in Plain Dealing.
In 1956, Doles was part of the association known as the Upper West Fork of Cypress Bayou Watershed, which worked with Roy D. "Don" Hinton (1912-2011), of Minden, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Dorcheat Soil & Water Conservation District, to establish three lakes in the Plain Dealing area to prevent recurring flooding. The municipality passed a $52,000 bond issue, and the Bossier Parish Police Jury built and blacktopped roads to the lakes. The rights-of-way were mostly donated by citizens. The largest of the lakes, Lake Plain Dealing, remains popular for recreation. In 1961, the undertaking was named national "Watershed Project of the Year", and Doles, long-term Plain Dealing Mayor
Leon Sanders and civic leader Joe C. Colvin and their wives traveled to Arizona
to receive the honor.
Doles served briefly by filling an unexpired term on the Plain Dealing City Council and as acting mayor, but he did not seek regional or state office. In 1961, he managed the campaign of Plain Dealing Democrat Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., for a vacant seat in the United States House of Representatives
. In Waggonner's only close race in an 18-year congressional career, he defeated the Republican
candidate, Charlton Lyons
, a Shreveport
oilman. Originally, Doles donated to such Democratic figures as former U.S. Senators Russell B. Long
and John B. Breaux, but by his later years, he was contributing to Republicans, such as former U.S. Representative Jim McCrery
and former U.S. President George W. Bush
.
Like his father, Doles graduated from Plain Dealing High School (1940) and LSU (1948). His studies were interrupted during World War II
. A member of the LSU Reserve Officers Training Corps, he served in France and Germany
during the war. In 1948, he received his bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering
. Though his principal work was in banking, Doles co-owned Discus Oil with Wayne Davis. Mrs. Doles, meanwhile, remains Davis' partner in the company.
While he was an LSU student, Doles was a fraternity
brother, roommate, and best man in the wedding party of future U.S. Representative Gillis William Long
(1923–2005), an unsuccessful two-time gubernatorial candidate. While in Baton Rouge, Doles met and married the former Mai (pronouned MAY) Frances Lower (born September 24, 1929), the adopted daughter of LSU-based historian
T. Harry Williams
. She was the only daughter of Williams' wife, the former Estelle Skolfield Lower, of Baton Rouge, herself an LSU English
professor. It was the second marriage for both Harry and Estelle Williams.
Doles, a Presbyterian elder, and his wife Mai, who is Roman Catholic, had four daughters: Roberta Lane "Robbie" Miller (born 1952) of Plain Dealing, the widow of Jay Jack Stone (1950–2004) and the wife of Aubrey Lynn Miller; Marguerite Adelle "Cissy" Babb of Baton Rouge, wife of Jon David Babb (both born 1955); Mai Frances Fritze (born 1958) of Shreveport, wife of George Fritze of Red River Motors of Bossier City, and Madge Wyche Davis (born 1960), wife of the Shreveport veterinarian
Dr. David Linwood Davis Sr.
Doles, Jr., died of leukemia
in a Shreveport hospital. He is interred along with his parents at Plain Dealing Cemetery. Mai Doles is retired in Shreveport.
Plain Dealing, Louisiana
Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States best known as the birthplace of former U.S. Representative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. The population was 1,071 at the 2000 census...
in northern Bossier Parish
Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Bossier Parish is named for Pierre Bossier, a 19th-century Louisiana state senator and U.S. representative from Natchitoches Parish.Bossier Parish was spared fighting on its soil during the American Civil War...
who served in the Louisiana State Senate
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
from 1952 to 1956, the tenure corresponding with the administration of Governor Robert F. Kennon
Robert F. Kennon
Robert Floyd Kennon, Sr., known as Bob Kennon , was the 48th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1952-1956. He failed to win a second non-consecutive term in the 1963 Democratic primary....
. Doles had been a roommate at Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
in Baton Rouge of future Governor Earl Kemp Long
Earl Long
Earl Kemp Long was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana for three non-consecutive terms. Long termed himself the "last of the red hot poppas" of politics, referring to his stump-speaking skills...
, but as an independent Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
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in the Senate, he often clashed with his still personal friend Long. On leaving the Senate, Doles was from 1956 to 1957 the president of the Louisiana Bankers Association.
Doles was born to Robert Samuel Doles (1856–1931), a farmer
Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...
originally from Bossier Parish, and the former Adele Dorcas McClenaghan (1862–1897), a native of Darlington County, South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
. Young John Doles had turned two when his mother died a day before what would have been her 35th birthday. Robert Samuel Doles did not remarry but reared John and four other sons alone. Robert and Adele Doles are interred at Cottage Grove Cemetery near Benton
Benton, Louisiana
The town of Benton is the parish seat of Bossier Parish, in the US state of Louisiana. The population was 2,035 at the 2000 census. The larger Bossier City is located south of Benton...
, the seat of Bossier Parish. Doles wed the former Madge Wyche (October 21, 1901—October 24, 1993), the daughter of Hammiter Wyche and the former Roberta Mears (1872–1973). The couple had one child, John J. Doles, Jr. (January 6, 1923—April 16, 2004).
Doles procured his Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
degree from LSU in sugar
Sugar
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
chemistry
Chemistry
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. He served in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
during World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. Rather than pursuing a career as a chemist, Doles went into banking in his native Plain Dealing, where he became until his death the long-term president of First State Bank and Trust, subsequently absorbed by Regions Bank. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Plain Dealing.
Plain Dealing is known for its abundant dogwood
Dogwood
The genus Cornus is a group of about 30-60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods. Most dogwoods are deciduous trees or shrubs, but a few species are nearly herbaceous perennial subshrubs, and a few of the woody species are evergreen...
trees, which bloom in the early spring. A citizens group known as the Plain Dealing Dogwood Association headed by the school principal Fred G. Phillips (1907–1989) organized an annual festival to showcase the trees to visitors. John and Madge Doles were active in the association. In the first festival held in the spring of 1951, Doles invited Governor Earl Long as the marshal
Marshal
Marshal , is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word is an ancient loan word from Old French, cf...
of the event.
Having solidified a career in banking, Doles was elected in the Democratic primary in January 1952, to a single term in the state Senate when the incumbent
Incumbent
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Drayton Rogers Boucher
Drayton Boucher
Drayton Rogers Boucher was a Louisiana state legislator from Springhill in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana, affiliated with the Long faction of state Democratic politics. Boucher represented Webster Parish for a single four-year term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940...
(1908–1983) of nearby Springhill
Springhill, Louisiana
Springhill is a city in northern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,439 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
in northern Webster Parish, a Long ally, declined to seek a fourth four-year term. Doles defeated Herman "Wimpy" Jones
Herman "Wimpy" Jones
Herman "Wimpy" Jones was a businessman who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from Bossier and Webster parishes for a single term from 1956 to 1960...
, a Bossier City
Bossier City, Louisiana
Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 61,315. Bossier City is closely tied to its larger sister city Shreveport, located on the western bank of the Red River. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is the...
and Minden
Minden, Louisiana
Minden is a city in the American state of Louisiana. It serves as the parish seat of Webster Parish and is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The population, which has been stable since 1960, was 13,027 at the 2000 census...
businessman who would succeed him in 1956, after a single term in the state Senate. In 1954, Senator Doles supported right-to-work legislation endorsed by the Kennon administration. He was physically attacked though uninjured on the Senate floor by a representative of organized labor. In a tumultuous session, right-to-work passed, but it was repealed two years later in 1956 in the last Long administration through the work of Victor Bussie
Victor Bussie
Victor V. Bussie was until his retirement in 1997 the 41-year unopposed president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, having first assumed the mantle of union leadership in 1956. Journalists often described him as the most significant non-elected "official" in his state's politics...
, the newly installed president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
. Twenty years later, in 1976, right-to-work was resurrected in the second term of Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. After his Senate service, Doles returned to his banking business full-time. To succeed Senator Doles, "Wimpy" Jones, who carried the Long factional backing, narrowly defeated fellow Democrat Harold Montgomery
Harold Montgomery
A. Harold Montgomery, Sr. , was an agricultural businessman and a Louisiana state senator, who is remembered as an outspoken conservative within his state's dominant Democratic Party...
, a businessman and former educator from Doyline
Doyline, Louisiana
Doyline is a village in southwestern Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 841 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area....
in south Webster Parish.
After his Senate tenure, Doles served two terms, from 1956 to 1970, as a member of the LSU Board of Supervisors. He was the chairman of the board after the 1961 football
American football
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season, when the popular coach
Coach (sport)
In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
Paul Dietzel
Paul Dietzel
Paul Dietzel is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University , the United States Military Academy , and the University of South Carolina , compiling a career record of 109–95–5...
resigned on January 5, 1962, to accept the head position at the United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City...
at West Point
West Point, New York
West Point is a federal military reservation established by President of the United States Thomas Jefferson in 1802. It is a census-designated place located in Town of Highlands in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 7,138 at the 2000 census...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, a position that Dietzel left after four years.
During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Madge Doles had launched Doles Insurance Company from a desk within the bank. After the war, the insurance company was run by John Doles, Jr., who also succeeded his father as president of First State Bank. The agency, still named "Doles Insurance", was later purchased by Plain Dealing civic leader Wayne Theodore Davis (born June 28, 1929) and is operated by Davis' son, Gregory Wayne Davis. Davis was honored by the Louisiana House of Representatives
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Louisiana. The House is composed of 105 Representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people . Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of...
on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
John J. Doles, Jr.
Like his father, John J. Doles, Jr., was a banker and civic figure in Plain Dealing. From 1982 to 1983, he was the president of the Louisiana Bankers Association, his tenure having begun a quarter of a century after that of his father. In addition to the Doleses, three other Bossier Parish bankers have served as president of the LBA: V.V. WhittingtonV.V. Whittington
Volney Voss Whittington, known as V.V. Whittington or Voss Whittington , was a banker from Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1928 to 1932.Whittington was born in Ivan in Bossier Parish but resided most of his life in the...
(a state senator from 1928 to 1932 and LBA president from 1948 to 1949), J. A. "Sonny" Dunnam, Jr., of Benton (1966–1967), and Will C. Hubbard (born 1946) of Citizen’s Bank in Bossier City, who served from 1997 to 1998.
Doles was affiliated with First State Bank and Doles Insurance Company and Discus Oil Company, both at 301 East Palmetto Avenue in Plain Dealing.
In 1956, Doles was part of the association known as the Upper West Fork of Cypress Bayou Watershed, which worked with Roy D. "Don" Hinton (1912-2011), of Minden, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Dorcheat Soil & Water Conservation District, to establish three lakes in the Plain Dealing area to prevent recurring flooding. The municipality passed a $52,000 bond issue, and the Bossier Parish Police Jury built and blacktopped roads to the lakes. The rights-of-way were mostly donated by citizens. The largest of the lakes, Lake Plain Dealing, remains popular for recreation. In 1961, the undertaking was named national "Watershed Project of the Year", and Doles, long-term Plain Dealing Mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
Leon Sanders and civic leader Joe C. Colvin and their wives traveled to Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
to receive the honor.
Doles served briefly by filling an unexpired term on the Plain Dealing City Council and as acting mayor, but he did not seek regional or state office. In 1961, he managed the campaign of Plain Dealing Democrat Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., for a vacant seat in the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
. In Waggonner's only close race in an 18-year congressional career, he defeated the Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
candidate, Charlton Lyons
Charlton Lyons
Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., also known as Big Papa Lyons , was a Shreveport oilman who in 1964 waged the first determined Republican bid for the Louisiana governorship since Reconstruction. Lyons also made a strong but losing bid for the United States House of Representatives in a special election...
, a Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
oilman. Originally, Doles donated to such Democratic figures as former U.S. Senators Russell B. Long
Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987.-Early life:...
and John B. Breaux, but by his later years, he was contributing to Republicans, such as former U.S. Representative Jim McCrery
Jim McCrery
James Otis "Jim" McCrery, III , is an American lawyer who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1988 to 2009; he represented the 4th District of Louisiana, based in the northwestern quadrant of the state.McCrery was a ranking member on the House Ways and...
and former U.S. President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
.
Like his father, Doles graduated from Plain Dealing High School (1940) and LSU (1948). His studies were interrupted during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. A member of the LSU Reserve Officers Training Corps, he served in France and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
during the war. In 1948, he received his bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...
. Though his principal work was in banking, Doles co-owned Discus Oil with Wayne Davis. Mrs. Doles, meanwhile, remains Davis' partner in the company.
While he was an LSU student, Doles was a fraternity
Fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
brother, roommate, and best man in the wedding party of future U.S. Representative Gillis William Long
Gillis William Long
Gillis William Long was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Louisiana and member of the Long family. Long served seven non-consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives but placed third in two campaigns for the Democratic gubernatorial nominations in 1963 and 1971...
(1923–2005), an unsuccessful two-time gubernatorial candidate. While in Baton Rouge, Doles met and married the former Mai (pronouned MAY) Frances Lower (born September 24, 1929), the adopted daughter of LSU-based historian
Historian
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T. Harry Williams
T. Harry Williams
Thomas Harry Williams was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death at the age of seventy...
. She was the only daughter of Williams' wife, the former Estelle Skolfield Lower, of Baton Rouge, herself an LSU English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
professor. It was the second marriage for both Harry and Estelle Williams.
Doles, a Presbyterian elder, and his wife Mai, who is Roman Catholic, had four daughters: Roberta Lane "Robbie" Miller (born 1952) of Plain Dealing, the widow of Jay Jack Stone (1950–2004) and the wife of Aubrey Lynn Miller; Marguerite Adelle "Cissy" Babb of Baton Rouge, wife of Jon David Babb (both born 1955); Mai Frances Fritze (born 1958) of Shreveport, wife of George Fritze of Red River Motors of Bossier City, and Madge Wyche Davis (born 1960), wife of the Shreveport veterinarian
Veterinarian
A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....
Dr. David Linwood Davis Sr.
Doles, Jr., died of leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
in a Shreveport hospital. He is interred along with his parents at Plain Dealing Cemetery. Mai Doles is retired in Shreveport.