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Oran Cantrol Chandler

3 Nov 1923 – 16 Mar 1966

Birth	3 Nov 1923
Death	16 Mar 1966
Cemetery	Hurricane Cemetery Hurricane , Claiborne Parish , Louisiana , USA
Added by	Calvin on 12 Aug 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93590851

Bio

The Shreveport Journal Shreveport, Louisiana 19 Mar 1966, Sat • Page 9 BOSSIER MAN DROWNS NEAR MORGAN CITY ORAN C. CHANDLER, 42, of Bossier City, drowned late Thursday in the Atchafalaya River near Morgan City. Officers said Chandler, who had complained of being ill earlier was sitting on a dock beside the river when he apparently fell in the water. He was a drilling rig worker and had been working on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico. CHANDLER WAS A native of the Hurricane Community but moved as a young man to Bossier City. He had been a plasterer and had worked most of his adult life in the Bossier City area. Survivors include his mother Mrs. Delia Chandler of Bossier City: a sister Mrs. Elvia Eliasson of Bossier City; four sons Richard, Benny, Wattle Joe and Keith Chandler, all of San Bernardino Calif. Funeral services for the deceased were held at 3 p.m. today at the Emanuel Baptist Church in the Hurricane Community of Bienville Parish. The Rev. L. C. Pickett officiated with burial in the Hurricane Cemetery under direction of the Conger Funeral Home. Obit Provided By Your Sister in Christ - Dona (Carr) Mooring

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Family

Parents

• Wattie Cantro Cantrol "Cantt" Chandler 1888–1951
• Delia Caroline McBride Chandler 1889–1982

Siblings

• Infant Chandler 1913–1913
• Elvia Elias Chandler Eliasson 1915–2003

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