Article - Local Man Killed in Line Accident, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: The Caldwell Watchman, June 13, 1974
Date: September 2004



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Headline:  LOCAL MAN KILLED IN LINE ACCIDENT
The Caldwell Watchman, June 13, 1974

A 26-year-old Columbia man was electrocuted about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday 
while cutting limbs away from power lines for Louisiana Power & Light Co.

He was identified as Alva E. Warner.

Officials said the accident occured off La. 847 near the Ouachita-Caldwell
Parish line.  A fellow worker, Jack Johnson, was working nearby, but was 
not injured.  However, he was treated for shock, officials said.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Riser and Son
Funeral Homehere with the Rev. L. J. Stotts officiating.  Burial was in the
Welcome Home Cemetery at Grayson.

Mr. Warner was employed by Louisiana Power & Light and was a veteran of the
Vietnam War.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Jorenda Rucker Warner; one daughter, 
Misty Warner, both of Columbia; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hilburn Warner 
of Grayson; two sisters, Miss Cathy Warner of Grayson, and Mrs. Wanda 
Campbell of Shreveport; two brothers, Billy Ray Warner and Bennie Wayne 
Warner, both of Grayson; and a grandmother, Mrs. Cora Kenworty of Grayson.