- Funeral Services Held April 24
For Raymond H. Madden Jr.
Funeral services for Raymond H. Madden, Jr., longtime Arcadia businessman and civic spearhead for a number of years, were held at 10 a. m. Wednesday, April 24 at Conger Chapel.
The Rev. George York, pastor, of First United Methodist Church,officiated. Interment under the direction of Conger Funeral Home was at the family plot, Arcadia Cemetery. Pallbearers were J. Hugh Watson, Bentley Gantt, Dewitt
Clements, George E. Rogers, O. L. Waltman, Jr., J. B. Lewis, Charles Joe Chandler, and H. A. Perritt.
Death came to Mr. Madden at 8 p. m. Monday, April 22 in Marksville General Hospital, Marksville, where he was undergoing special treatment. He was transferred there on last Wednesday from Shreveport where he had been a patient
at Schumpert Hospital since March 6 when he was stricken ill.
Raymond H. Madden Jr. was born in Arcadia December 6, 1917, the son of Mrs. Ina (McGuire) and Raymond H. Madden Sr., early settlers and one Arcadia's earliest business families.
A graduate of Arcadia High School, he attended Chillicothe Business College, Chillicothe, Mo., received the bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana Polytechnic College and did graduate work at Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. A partner in Madden Clothing Co., Arcadia, Madden was a member of the Bienville Parish School Board as representative of Ward 1, having been elected to that place in 1965. He had served Arcadia as a member of the Town
Council for a number of years and was a Steward and Sunday School teacher at First United Methodist Church where he was a long time member.
A veteran of World War II, he was a commissioned officer in the U. S. Navy where he held the rank of Lieutenant Second Grade. He saw overseas service as a member of the Naval Air Support in the Aleutians. He was a member of the Hamp
Michael American Legion Post, No. 70 of Arcadia and the VFW.
He was married on November 11, 1941 to the former Miss Helen Alfred in a ceremony performed at the First Baptist Church.
The family requests those wishing to signify memorials to please send their contributions to Cancer Research, T. E. Schumpert Hospital, Shreveport.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Helen Madden of Arcadia; two sons, Raymond H. Madden III, Ruston, and James Allen Madden, Arcadia; a brother, Johns Albert Madden, Arcadia and a sister, Ina Claire Madden, Arcadia. Two grandchildren,
Elizabeth Elaine Madden of Arcadia and Michael Ryan Madden of Ruston also survive.
Published in the Bienville Democrat 4/25/1974
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