Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Sunday, January 8, 1967

DARRELL CRAIG ELAM

REEVES -- Funeral services for Darrell Craig Elam, 5, of Reeves are to be at 2 p.m. today in the Congregational Church with the Revs. Gerald Smith, Lester Sensat, Austin Langley and J. E. VanWinkle officiating.

Burial will be in the Creel Memorial Garden under direction of Hixson Funeral Home of DeRidder.

Darrell died at 7 p.m. Friday in a DeQuincy hospital as the result of an explosion of an abandoned gas tank.

Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis L. Elam of Reeves; one sister, Tommie Linn [sic Tammy Lynn] Elam; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Elam and Mr. and Mrs. George Petrie [sic Pitre], all of Reeves; great-grandparents, Mrs. Legim Petrie [sic Lezim Pitre] of Kinder, Mrs. Elizabeth Elam of Reeves and Mrs. Paul Sonnier of Oberlin.