Submitted by Dee Taft
Rome News Tribune Thursday, February 28, 1940
Bagwell Rites
3 P. M. Friday
Funeral services for Elmer Otis Bagwell, 31, who died at the home of his uncle, J.B. Bagwell, 915 East First Street, Wednesday night, will be held from the Mark McDonald Baptist church tomorrow afternoon at three o’clock with the Rev. Charles Rector and the Rev. W.O. Denson, officiating. Interment will be in the Fellowship Cemetery.
Mr. Bagwell was born and had spent all of his life in Rome, and at the time of his death was employed by the Rome Hosiery mills. He is survived by his widow, and one daughter, Gertrude, also two brothers, Lawrence and Carl, of Rome, two sisters, Mrs. Nora Lindsey, of Rome, and Mrs. Ruth Sexton, of Merriana, Fla., and his mother, Mrs. J.A. Bagwell, of Rome.
The following friends will serve as pallbearers, and are requested to meet at the residence at 2:30: J.W. Massey, Emmett Edwards, W.C. Brackett, Cicero Howren, Leo Richardson, and Horace Walker.