Lake Charles American Press, Wednesday, March 15, 1961, p. 5: JOHN L. CONRAD
WEST LAKE (Spl) – Funeral services for John Leslie Conrad, 38, life resident of the West Lake area, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hixson funeral home chapel in Lake Charles with Rev. Pratt McCloud officiating. Burial will be in Goos cemetery in Lake Charles under the direction of Hixson's funeral home. Mr. Conrad died at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick hospital. He was a pipe superintendent at Hercules Powder Co. Mr. Conrad was a past president of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 106. He was active in sports and was a star basketball player at West Lake high school from which he was graduated. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Bernice Conrad; five sons, A. E., Billy, Johnnie, Owens and Gregory Conrad; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Conrad, and one brother, Alvin E. Conrad, all of West Lake.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46364136/john-leslie-conrad
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: John is 20 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 24 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 18 degrees from George Catlin, 20 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 27 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 20 degrees from George Grinnell, 28 degrees from Anton Kröller, 20 degrees from Stephen Mather, 27 degrees from Kara McKean, 18 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 28 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.