Obituary of TOREN CHRISTOPHER BEARDEN, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX 75013 
(No Relation.)

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:  February 18, 1987 

Headline:  Man found dead near Olla airport

A 19-year-old Olla man was found dead Thursday afternoon of an apparent 
self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a spokesman for the LaSalle Parish 
Sheriff's Department.

Toren C. Bearden, 19 of Olla, was found around 4 p.m., Thursday afternoon in 
a wooded area near the Olla airport.  A boy who was riding a bicycle in the 
area found the body.

He notified LaSalle Deputy Sheriff Gary Taylor who lies near the location.

Bearden was pronounced dead at the scene by LaSalle Assistant Coroner Danny 
Brown and the body was taken to Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West 
Monroe for autopsy.

FUNERAL SERVICES

Services for Toren Christopher Bearden were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, 
1987, at Pine Hill Baptist Church with Revs. Vick Carter and Norris Curry, 
officiating.

Burial followed at Pine Hill Cemetery of Olla with arrangements by Hixson 
Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Carol White Tidwell of Tullos; his father, 
Edward Jerald Bearden of Olla; two brothers, Brent Edward Bearden and William 
Clint Bearden, both of West Monroe; two sisters, Holly Michelle Blazier of 
Olla and Stephanie Carol Black of Epps; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Wesley Bearden of Olla and maternal grandmother Mrs. Sylvia White Peavey of 
Tullos.