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==Family and death==
==Family and death==
On June 5, 1934, Minchew married the former Gladys Crawford (April 2, 1913 – December 15, 1987), who was an elementary schoolteacher at Castor. The couple had two children, Michael Bert Minchew, I (born 1938), and his wife, the former Norma Jean Ellis (born 1939), of Richardson, [[Texas]], and Mary Lynn Hooper (born 1944) and husband Robert Lee Hooper (born 1939), of Mancos in far southwestern [[Colorado]], previously of Lordsburg in southern [[New Mexico]]. Mary was formerly married to Howard Merrill Goodwyn (born 1940) of Arlington, Texas.<ref name=whoswho/> Minchew had a sister, Lois M. Perritt (1919–2011), a 1936 graduate of Castor High School; a nephew, Ronald Perritt of Baton Rouge,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=lois-minchew-perritt&pid=150212718|title=Lois Minchew Perritt|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' April 12, 2011|accessdate=April 12, 2011}}</ref> seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
On June 5, 1934, Minchew married the former Gladys Crawford (April 2, 1913 – December 15, 1987), who was an elementary schoolteacher at Castor. The couple had two children, Michael Bert Minchew, I (born 1938), and his wife, the former Norma Jean Ellis (born 1939), of Richardson, [[Texas]], and Mary Lynn Hooper (born 1944) and husband Robert Lee Hooper (born 1939), of Mancos in far southwestern [[Colorado]], previously of Lordsburg in southern [[New Mexico]]. Mary was formerly married to Howard Merrill Goodwyn (born 1940) of Arlington, Texas.<ref name=whoswho/> Minchew had a sister, Lois M. Perritt (1919–2011), a 1936 graduate of Castor High School; a nephew, Ronald Perritt of Baton Rouge,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=lois-minchew-perritt&pid=150212718|title=Lois Minchew Perritt|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]''|date=April 12, 2011|accessdate=April 12, 2011}}</ref> seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
Minchew died at his home in Ruston at the age of ninety-three. Services were held on July 3, 2001, at First Baptist Church in Ruston. He is interred beside his wife at Springhill Cemetery in Ringgold in Bienville Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/bienville/cemeteries/springhillcem.txt|title=Burials at Springhill Cemetery|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=December 2, 2010}}</ref>
Minchew died at his home in Ruston at the age of ninety-three. Services were held on July 3, 2001, at First Baptist Church in Ruston. He is interred beside his wife at Springhill Cemetery in Ringgold in Bienville Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/bienville/cemeteries/springhillcem.txt|title=Burials at Springhill Cemetery|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=December 2, 2010}}</ref>