This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A6DA1F4B1FF80B5692214335 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------A6DA1F4B1FF80B5692214335 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="weeksd51.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="weeksd51.txt" Obituaries: Dudley Weeks, 1951, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. From: March 1, 1951 Winn Parish Enterprise Dudley Weeks Is Killed In Mishap On Dugdemona The body of Dudley Weeks, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Weeks of Ward Ten, was recovered from Dugdemona Creek about nine hours after his boat had been located last Saturday at 2 a.m. He had met an accidental death when his single barrel 12 gauge shotgun had fired when the trigger hit a cross bar in the boat, and it was presumed that he fell in the water. His body was recovered by searchers who started a hunt Friday night when he failed to come out of the woods after going on a hunting trip Friday afternoon with two other youths, John Edward Garrett, 19, and Billy Hattaway, 18. It was reported that Hattaway and Garrett parted with Weeks about two miles below there the accident occurred. They hunted on foot while he proceeded up the creek in the boat. When he failed to rejoin them at dark, they came out, and a search was started later in the night when he did not return. His body was recovered with hooks by Red Blake about 15 feet from the boat. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Yankee Springs Baptist church with Rev. C. M. Robinson and Rev. Aaron Gorham officiating. Burial was in Yankee Springs Cemetery. Acting as pallbearers were John Edward Garrett, Tracy Rushing, Jim Durbin, Charles Hutto, Clyde Barnette, and Julian Kelley. The youth is survived by his parents; two sisters, Mrs. Violet Palmer of Mississippi and Mrs. Christine Briggs of Alexandria; three brothers, Douglas of Cullen, Billy Wayne and Yvone of Ward 10. --------------A6DA1F4B1FF80B5692214335--