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- 1953
LON W. KNIGHT DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS His many friends and former associates of the Columbian Mutual Life were sadded by the news of the death of Lon W. Knight at the Greenwood Mississippi Hospital on May 25 following a long illness. He was 65. For some twenty years prior to his retirement because of ill health Mr. Knight represented the Company in the state of Mississippi and was one of its outstanding producers. When forced to discontinue active field work because of illness he retired to his farm i Carroll County, Mississippi. Although he was never able to regain his health, he became a very successful plantation owner and operator. He was born in carroll County, Mississippi on January 29, 1888, the son of James Lewis and Annie Malone Knight, and spent his entire life in that county, where he was known and loved for his many good deeds performed for his friends and neighbors. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Flonnie Joiner, to whom he was married on December 29, 1909. He is also survived by three children: Chap. (Lt. Col.) Lonnie W. Knight, now serving in the Armed Forces in the Marshall Islands; Charles Binford Knight, who is a mortician in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Mrs. Annie Lloyd Knight Hankins of Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was buried at Greewood, Mississippi on May 26. James Hardy James
E. Hardy
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