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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, March 12, 1953

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.
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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, March 19, 1953

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.