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Extracted from The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal (Jena, LA)
Man Died From Wreck Injuries; 5th In '64
Lee Vanner Cotten, 47-year-old resident of Route 2, Pollock and a native
of Trout, became the fifth traffic fatality in LaSalle parish when he died
Saturday morning at 3 a.m. from injuries recieved [sic] in a one car wreck Friday
night about 7 p.m.
Cotten was traveling on a road in the Belah community when his car veered
off the road in front of the Dale Barker home and crashed into a pine tree.
It was not possible to determine the exact cause of the wreck.
Investigating were State Police Corporal Larry Robertson and LaSalle Parish
Sheriff's deputy Doyle Windham.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services for 47-year-old Lee Vanner Cotton were held Monday at 2 p.m.
in the Searcy Baptist church with the Revs. Lamar Skinner and Ed Jelks officiating.
Burial was in Taylor Chapel Cemetery at Summerville under the direction of Hixson
Brothers funeral home of Jena.
Mr. Cotten was a resident of Route two, Pollock and a native of Trout. He died
at 3 a.m. Saturday in an Alexandria hospital from injuries recieved in a car wreck
Friday night at 7 p.m.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eva Love Cotten of Pollock; two sons, Billy Wayne
Cotton of Tullos and Paul Raymond Cotton of Pollock; one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Jean
Berthelot of Baton Rouge; three brothers, Wesley Cotton and Johnny Cotton of Trout
and Lonnie Cotton of Tioga; three sisters, Mrs. Eddie Lee Berryman of Trout, Mrs.
Myrtis Thomas of Chicago, Ill. and Mrs. Edna Jones of California; and two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were A. G. Cockerham, Roy Zeagler, R. V. Zeagler, C. R. Cockerham,
Orland Sand [remainder missing]
Friday, July 17, 1964