Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, September 12, 1956

Ferriday Crop Duster Killed In Plane Crash

FERRIDAY, Sept. 12 (Special) -- Burl Poole, 33, well-known Ferriday resident and owner of the Poole Dusting Co., of Ferriday, was killed instantly at 5:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon when the crop dusting plane he was flying crashed and burned on the Loamland plantation in Tensas parish.

Poole was burned beyond recognition after the wreckage ignited.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Ferriday Baptist church, with Rev. Shirley Briggs officiating. Burial, under the direction of Young's funeral home was in the Green Lawn Memorial Cemetery at Natchez, Miss., with Masonic rites at the graveside.

The victim was a former Ferriday high school football star, a member of the Ferriday Baptist Church, and a veteran of World War II, having served in the Air Force.

Poole also was a member of the Ferriday Masonic Lodge No. 390.

He had owned an operated the dusting firm for about five years.

Survivors include his wife, Ruby; his mother and father, Mrs. and Mrs. Lonnie Poole; five brothers, Murrel, Reginald, James, Jerry and Paul Wayne, all of Ferriday; four sisters, May, Retta and Nelva Poole, all of Ferriday, and Mrs. Alpha House, Minden.