Obituary of BILLY JO MCGREGORY, 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:  August 15, 1935

Headline:  Funeral Service for Boy Hurt in Wreck Held Wednesday

Funeral services for Billy Jo McGregory, aged 5 years, two months, and 25 
days, who died Tuesday, August 6, 1935, at 1:55 p.m., of injuries which he 
sustained in a truck wreck last week were held Wednesday morning, August 7.

The procession left the family residence, 1820 Second Street, Alexandria, at 
8 a.m., and went to Squyres Cemetery, near Summerville, where services were 
held at 10 o'clock.  Interment followed there.

The boy is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Grover L. 
McGregory, Alexandria.

He was injured on Tuesday, July 30, when the truck in which he was riding, 
driven by his mother, plunged into a ditch o the highway near Fishville.  
Samuel A. Oden, aged 60, died that morning of injuries he received in the 
accident.

The boy was taken to the Baptist Hospital at Alexandria, where he stayed for 
three days before being removed to his home where he expired. 

At the time of the accident, Mrs. McGregory said she apparently had a heart 
attack as everything went black.  When she recovered, the truck was in the 
ditch.

The funeral was under the arrangement of the Reeves Funeral Home and Rev. 
Fate Cupples conducted the services.