Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Monday, March 13, 1961

Natchitoches Man Killed in Accident

(Special to The Town Talk)

NATCHITOCHES, La. -- Funeral services for Jimmy D. Emmons, 29, were to be held today at 3 p.m. at the Bethany Baptist church with Rev. O. S. Roberts officiating.

Burial was to be in the church cemetery under direction of the First National Funeral Home of Natchitoches.

Emmons was killed in a car accident Saturday night enroute to New Orleans as his vehicle and another collided on the Lake Pontcha[r]train causeway.

Emmons, his wife, Mrs. Winnie Huston Emmons, her mother, Mrs. Floyd Davis, and the driver of the other auto were all killed.

Lawrence Davis and a seven-year-old neice [sic niece] of Mrs. Davis are in critical condition in Charity Hospital in New Orleans. The Emmons' young daughter, Virginia Diane, has been released from the hospital.

Emmons, a former resident of Natchitoches, was a juvenile parole officer in Jefferson parish. He resided in Metairie.

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan E. Emmons of Natchitoches; a daughter, Virginia Diane Emmons of Metairie; three brothers, Joseph B. Emmons and Nathan E. Emmons Jr., both of Oakland, Calif., and Thomas A. Emmons of Shreveport.