Obituary of George Curtis Cannon, 1953, Hempstead County, AR ************************************************************************ Submitted by: niece, Jodie Wyatt Date: 17 Aug 2001 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Hope Star - Hempstead County - April 1953 CURTIS CANNON SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK George Curtis Cannon, aged 53, member of a prominent Hope family, was fatally stricken with a heart attack about 5 p.m. Wednesday in a bus station at Texarkana. He was returning home from Arizona where he had gone for his health. Mr. Cannon suffered two attacks. An ambulance was summoned following the first but he seemed to have recovered and insisted on continuing his trip home. A few minutes later the second attack was fatal. He was an attorney, a printer, and a former newspaper publisher and had served as a state representative from Hempstead. His father was the late George E. Cannon, pioneer resident and physician of Hope. For many years Mr. Cannon was connected with various newspapers in this area. He operated a weekly here in the 1920's and briefly operated the Hope Morning News in 1930. Later he was connected with a newspaper in Lake Charles, La. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. George E. Cannon of Hope, six children, Mrs. Tom Magness and Mrs. Price Brown, both of Phoenix, Ariz., Capt. George C. Cannon, Jr., and Billy Cannon, both of the Armed Forces, Ginger and Gardner of Hope, three sisters, Mrs. Monroe Scoggins of Texarkana, Mrs. Maurice M. Vick of Baton Rouge, La., Mrs. Charles B. Welch of Arkadelphia. Funeral services were to be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Herndon-Cornelius Funeral Home here with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. ************************************************************************