Obituary of Alex Morace, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Micro Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.
Thursday, July 21, 1966.


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Jena Youth Killed In Auto Accident South of Tullos

A Jena teenager was killed instantly Sunday afternoon when his car left the
road and landed on a creek bank one mile southeast of Tullos.

Alex Morace, 18, apparently lost control of his 1965 Plymouth and went off the
left shoulder of the road.  In cutting back to the right, he left the shoulder
and traveled 70 feet in the air before landing on the opposite bank of
Cockerham Creek.

LaSalle parish sheriff's deputies Alonzo Taylor and H. D. Smith and State
Police corporal Larry Robertson investigated the accident.  They reported the
youth was killed instantly.

The officers said Morace was obviously traveling at a high rate of speed over
the wet pavement when the accident occurred approximately 4:30 Sunday
afternoon.

Because there were no witnesses and the wrecked car was hidden by the bridge,
the boy's body was not found until 5:45 Monday morning.  Johnny Clark Maxwell
of Georgetown, who works for the highway district, found him.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at Midway Baptist church with the Revs. 
Willard Bell and S. B. Spinks officiating.  Burial was in New Era cemetery
under the direction of Hixson Brothers funeral home, Jena.

Survivors include one brother, Paul Raymond Morace of the U. S. Navy; four
sisters, Mrs. Eva Lemoine of Tucson, Ariz., Mrs. Marilyn Lyles of Rayville,
Mrs. Sadie Love and Miss Charline Morace of Jena; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Morace of Jena; his grandmother, Mrs. Oma Evans of Jena.

Pallbearers were Joe E. Pecanty, Tillman Pecanty, John Evans, Ed Evans, Lawson
Evans and Lonnie Evans, Honorary pallbearers were Herbert Morace, Minor Morace
and c. W. Bonds.