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In the New Orleans Times-Picayune Wednesday, July 8, 1998: (note:
paragraphed for ease
of reading)
Lewis Skidmore Waller III, a retired certified public accountant, died June
3 at his home.
He was 77.
Mr. Waller was born in Norfolk, Va., and lived in New Orleans for more than
20 years.
He was a divisional vice-president and director of internal auditing for
D.H. Holmes Co.
(department store) for 12 years.
He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and an Army veteran of
WW II. He was
an elder at Lakeview Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Aline Childress Waller; a son, Lewis Skidmore
Waller IV of
Lucedale, Ms.; a daughter, Claudia Ann Hite of Mobile, Ala.; five
grandchildren; and a
great-grandchild.
A memorial service will be held ...at Lakeview Presbyterian Church, 5914
Canal Blvd. (New
Orleans).
Thanks to Doris from LA
Works:
A Confederate Girl's Diary.
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1991.
Biographical Information:
Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan Dawson was born in New
Orleans, the
daughter of Thomas Gibbes and Sarah Waller Fowler
Morgan.
Married Captain Francis Warrington Dawson, 1874; two children. She wrote for
her husband's
news paper, the Charleston News and Courier, under the pen names
"Mr.
Fowler" and "Feu Follet." Moved to Paris after her husband's
death and died
there.