C. B. LaBelle

Old Brinkleyite Buried on Monday: Another Pioneer Brinkleyite Passes Away Suddenly; C. B. LaBelle Dies at Varner; Buried in Brinkley Monday.

On Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the Brinkley Catholic Church, there was held the funeral of Mr. Chas. Broadway LaBelle, a former Brinkley pioneer citizen, who died suddenly on Saturday at his store in Varner, Ark.

Mr. LaBelle came to Brinkley in 1883 and in 1888 was married to Miss Annie Black, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Black, who with John Gunn, had founded the town in 1870. He moved to Varner, Ark., and has had charge of a Rice Plantation and estate during that time. He was a partner in a big mercantile store at Varner and on Saturday morning had gone to the store as usual when he was noticed to have an attack and walked from the rear to the front of the store and fell, dying of a heart stroke.

Mr. LaBelle was cashier of the Monroe County Bank for a number of years and was perhaps one of the most popular bankers in Eastern Arkansas. He had friends by the hundreds. He was kind and considerate and was a friend to the rich and poor alike. Everybody in Monroe County liked Charley LaBelle.

The body was brought to Brinkley for interment and was met at the union station Sunday afternoon by many old time friends of the deceased, and was taken to the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. Benj. Emmons, from whence it moved.

The pall bearers were old time friends of the deceased, among them: Messrs. Jno. C. Blessing, Elmo Chaney, T. M. Kelly, Jas. L. Woodfin, Frank Andrews, Frank Milwee, Wm. B. Folsom, J. H. Stack, A. Goldberg.

Honorary Pall bearers: John Gazzola, C. F. Greenlee, T. T. Bateman, Joe W. Hale, Jas. Gunn, J. J. Farrell, M. R. Stimson, J. C. Lamm.