Obituary of Trisha Harper, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Wednesday, January 13, 1999


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Last Friday night...
Trout teen killed in crash near Jena

A 19-year-old Trout woman was the victim of a one-vehicle traffic accident
near Jena last Friday night, according to State Police. She becomes the first
traffic fatality in the parish for 1999.

Trisha Harper, 19, of Trout, died at 1:53 a.m., Saturday morning in Rapides
Regional Medical Center from injuries she suffered in the accident which
occurred around 8:35 p.m. Friday night.

The wreck occurred when Kristopher Y. Coleman, 21, of Jonesville, lost control
of his Ford pickup truck while traveling east on La. 772 (Hatchery Road) about
2.7 miles east of Jena.

State Police said he apparently ran off the right side of the road in a curve.
In an attempt to get back on the road, he overcorrected, causing the truck to
cross the road and strike a tree, troopers said. Coleman was thrown from the
truck as it went into a spin which cause the truck to hit another tree.

Coleman was taken to LaSalle General Hospital with critical injuries,
including a broken neck. He was later transferred to Rapides Regional Medical
Center in Alexandria.

The victim was also taken to LaSalle General Hospital in critical condition
and later transferred to Rapides Regional Medical Center where she died about
five hours later.

(There are three more paragraphs mentioning other passengers and details that
I have elected not to list.)

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Trisha Harper

Trisha Harper, 19, of Trout, died at 1:53 a.m., Saturday, January 9, 1999, at
Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria form injuries she sustained in a
traffic accident a few hours earlier.

She was a clerk at the Fish Net Company of Jonesville.

Services were held at 3 p.m., Sunday, January 10, in the chapel of Hixson
Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with Rev. Randy Ray officiating.

Interment followed in Woodland Cemetery of Jena under direction of Hixson
Brothers, Inc. of Jena.

Survivors include one daughter, Kyra Harper of Tullos; her parents, Jay and
Mary Harper of Trout; maternal grandmother, Susan Goodart of Patterson;
paternal grandmother, Grace Harper of Jena; and a host of aunts, uncles and
cousins.

Pallbearers were Matthew Brunet, Logan Randall, Chad McCormick, Chad Smith,
Glen Coolman, and Mark McCartney.

Honorary pallbearers were Gary Goodart, Tommy Randall, Joe Taunton, John
Taunton, Chad Gresham, Patrick Buxton, Jason McGee, Elvin Paul, Lee
Charpentier, Benny Champlin, Sonny Champlin, and Tommy Champlin.