This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1E21D9A98B4B2DD5F978769E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 [email protected] --------------1E21D9A98B4B2DD5F978769E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="tmpsnc53.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="tmpsnc53.txt" Obituaries: Coady Thompson, 1953, 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 12 & 19, 1953 Winn Parish Enterprise Article No. 1 Body of Drowning Victim Found, To Be Returned Here The body of Coady Thompson, 32, who drowned on a lake in South Carolina February 15, was found early today, according to reports form the family here. The remains will be returned here Saturday afternoon. Funeral services are incomplete, pending the arrival of the remains. Mr. Thompson, employed as a pipefitter at the Savannah River atomic energy project at Aiken, S. C. , drowned while fishing on Santee Cooper reservoir near Eloree, S. C. Another man, Thurman Spires, of Bamburg, S. C., also drowned. Spires is survived by a wife and five children. Their bodies were found near their boat, the motor still attached, and the fishing gear intact. Details of the fatal accident were not known. Mr. Thompson was a shipyard worker during World War II and also served with the U. S. Merchant Marines. He was born March 3, 1921 at Joyce, and was a graduate of Winnfield High School. Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Lucy Williams, daughter of T. J. Williams of Dodson; three children, Sandra Gayle, 4 «, Bruce Michael, 3, and Coady Myron, 1; four brothers, Coy, Billy, Jimmy, and Kenneth; three sisters, Mrs. Marie Biggs, Dodson, Mrs. Helen Cockerham, Winnfield, and Miss Barbara Ann Thompson, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson of Dodson Highway. Article No. 2 Final Rites Held For Coady Thompson Last rites were held Sunday for Coady Thompson in the Hurricane Grove Church near Tannehill with Willard Mixon and Rev. Arvell Valentine and Mary Walker officiating. Interment followed in the Cypress Creek Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home. Mr. Thompson drowned on February 15 in a river in South Carolina. His body was recovered from the river last week and arrived in Winnfield Saturday afternoon on the Rock Island Passenger Train. He was born on March 3, 1921, and lacked only a few days being thirty two years old at the time of his death. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucy Williams Thompson, three children, Sandra Gayle, Bruce, and Coady Myron, all of Winnfield; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson, of the Dodson Highway, four brothers, and three sisters, who are Coy, Billy, Jimmy, and Kenneth Thompson, of Dodson Highway, Mrs. Marie Briggs of Dodson, Mrs. Helen Cockerham of Winnfield, and Mrs. Barbara Ann Thompson of Dodson Highway. --------------1E21D9A98B4B2DD5F978769E--