Obituary of FREDERICK COON, JR., 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:  December 5, 1957

Headline:  Rodeo Injuries are Fatal to Fred Coon, Jr.

Funeral services for Charles Frederick Coon, Jr., 26, who died at a Baton 
Rouge hospital last Friday morning at 2 o'clock were held Saturday, Nov. 30, 
at 2 p.m., at the Nolley Memorial Methodist Church with burial following in 
the Nolley Methodist Cemetery.

The Revs. W. O. Lynch and O. W. Spinks, E. W. Day, D. A. Doughty and Paul 
Nolan conducted the service.

Interment was under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.

Serving as pallbearers for the final rites were Tommie Tarver, Eddie Price, 
Buddy Stutson, Billy Ray Stutson, Garland Bailey, Ike Robertson, Lee McDowell 
and Nelson Fairbanks.

Young Coon, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coon of Nebo route, Jena, died of 
injuries received last Saturday while participating in a student rodeo, 
sponsored by the Block and Bridle Club at LSU where he was attending college.

Full details of the accident were not available but it was unofficially 
reported that the young man was riding in the Brahma bull riding event.  He 
reportedly mounted on the animal and as the Brahma came out of the chute, it 
whirled, throwing the young man, either against the chute gate or on the 
ground at the chute gate.  The force of the fall reportedly caused the 
injuries.  There was no indication that the Brahma stomped or gored the 
youth, it was stated.

Immediately following the accident, he was rushed to a hospital in Baton 
Rouge where he remained in a critical condition until his death early last 
Friday morning.

He was a graduate of Jena High School in 1950 and was active in 4-H Club 
work, taking particular interest in cattle projects.  Following completion of 
his work at Jena High School he enrolled at LSU, later interrupting his 
college work for two years service in the armed forces, part of which was 
spent overseas in Germany.  Following his discharge, he resumed his college 
work, first at Northeast College in Monroe and then transferred back to LSU 
at the opening of the present term and would have graduated at the end of 
this semester it was reported.