Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Sunday, September 24, 1961

MRS. PEGGY COOLEY

DERIDDER (Spl) -- Funeral services for Mrs. Peggy Flo Cooley, 25, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Three Pines Pentecostal church here. Rev. James Stephenson and Rev. Thomas Cooley will officiate.

Burial will be in Beauregard cemetery under direction of Hixson funeral home.

Mrs. Cooley died at 4:15 a.m. Saturday at St. Patrick hospital in Lake Charles. She died from injuries received when she apparently jumped from a moving car at 2:45 a.m. Saturday east of the Calcasieu river bridge on U.S. Highway 90.

She is survived by her husband, Dallas Cooley of Lake Charles; one son, Danny D. Cooley of Lake Charles; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Burge of DeRidder; and two brothers, Billy and Benny Burge, both of DeRidder.