Obituary of PATSY D. BECK, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  September 1, 1927

Headline:  Girl Killed by Freight Train Saturday P.M.

Miss Patsy D. Beck, aged 19, died at an Alexandria sanitarium early Saturday 
morning after suffering for several hours from injuries received when the 
touring car she was driving was struck by an L. & A. freight train at Midway, 
one mile west of Jena Friday afternoon.

Miss Beck, accompanied by her grandmother, Mrs. Fannie McAnnally, with whom 
she makes her home on Funny Louis Creek, was enroute to Good Pine, when the 
accident occurred.  It is thought that she did not see the freight train as 
it approached the crossing at Midway until she was too close to the track. 
Realizing her danger, the young lady sped her car up in an effort to get 
across before the train struck, but her efforts were futile and the front end 
of the engine struck her car, throwing her twenty feet from the scene of the 
accident, crushing her jawbone, breaking her left arm and shoulder.

Mrs. McAnnally was also severely injured, but late reports from the hospital 
state that her condition is very much improved.

Miss Beck was the daughter of Frank Beck and they made their home with Mrs. 
McAnnally.  Besides her father and her grandmother, she is survived by her 
one uncle, Charles Whatley, of Trout, and two aunts, Mrs. G. T. Reson and 
Mrs. S. P. LaCroix, both of Trout.  

Funeral services were held in the Eden Cemetery at four o'clock Saturday 
afternoon.