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- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Dufilho Rites Held Monday," obituary, The Marshall News Messenger (Marshall, Texas), 18 June 1956, p. 4-B, col. 2 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/319803373: accessed 17 February 2020).
Dufilho Rites Held Monday
Funeral service for Leon Dufilho, 57, of Houston, son of Mrs. Mathilde Dufilho and brother of Mrs. Ray Keeth, 3601 Indian Springs Drive, were held at Welch Funeral Chapel in Longview at 10:15 a m. Monday. Rev. Edward Shopka, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Longview, conducted the rites. Committal services were held at 10:30 a.m. at the Memory Park in Longview.
Mr. Dufilho, a frequent visitor to Marshall, died Friday in a Houston hospital of a heart attack. He had been in ill health several months.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Leon Dufilho of Houston; his mother, Mrs. Mathilde Dufilho of Marshall; one daughter, Mrs. Jaques Wilkinson. Longview; two grandsons, one brother, Al Dufilho of Henderson; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Keeth of Marshall and Mrs. Viola Webb of Shreveport; and a niece, Miss Jere Keeth of Marshall.
[Newspapers.com, "Dufilho Rites Held Monday," obituary, The Marshall News Messenger (Marshall, Texas), 18 June 1956, p. 4-B, col. 2 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/319803373: accessed 17 February 2020).]
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Mrs. Jacques Davis Wilkinson," marriage announcement, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 24 February 1946, p. 27 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/211023790: accessed 21 June 2020).
Mrs. Jacques Davis Wilkinson, who before her marriage Feb. 11 was Miss Normand Evelyn Dufilho, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon C. Dufilho. Lieutenant Wilkinson is the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Wilkinson of Jackson, La. The ceremony was solemnized at 7:30 o’clock in the evening at the home of the bride's parents on College street with the Rev. R. O. Cawker officiating. They spent a few days in Shreveport, Jackson, and New Orleans before he reported back to the U.S.S. Paracutin in San Francisco. She returned to L.S.U. where she will receive her degree in May. Mrs. Leon G. Dufilho, mother of the bride, was her only attendant and the best man was Dr. Jack W. Flowers. The bride wore a grey suit with corsage of sweetheart roses.
[Source: The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 24 February 1946, p. 27.]
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