Legislative and Civic Service
After World War II, the couple moved to her hometown of Newellton in northern Tensas Parish, where DeWitt clerked in a store owned by Henry Lang. Thereafter, DeWitt engaged in farming, piloted his own plane, and developed an interest in state politics. In the legislature, he served on the House Un-American Activities, Agriculture, and Transportation committees. Prior to his legislative service, the couple relocated to St. Joseph and resided on scenic Lake Bruin, an oxbow lake of the Mississippi River.
DeWitt was a member and a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Newellton. He was a member of the advisory committee of the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation, an interest group, which honored him on April 30, 1996, with its 1995 "G.O. McGuffee Public Servant Award" presented in a ceremony in Baton Rouge by former state Senator Bryan A. Poston of Hornbeck in Vernon Parish.
He was also active in the American Legion, Rotary International, and the board of the Lake Bruin Golf and Country Club, where he played tennis well into his eighties. In earlier years, he was a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.
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