Obituary of WADE YAWN, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
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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:  October 22, 1936

Headline:  Wade Yawn Killed By School Bus on Saturday Morning

Wade Yawn, 25 year old employee of the Louisiana Highway Commission, was 
instantly killed at 9:30 a.m. Saturday near the residence of Sam Finley, 
seven miles from Jena on the Trout-Pollock highway when he was struck by a 
school bus driven by Johnnie Brazelle and owned by Marion Trisler of 
Jonesville.

According to witnesses, Yawn, who was almost completely deaf, walked into the 
bus while crossing the highway.  The bus was not being driven at an excessive 
rate of speed but the driver was unable to halt the machine before Yawn's 
body had been struck and dragged about twenty feet, reports said.

Yawn was a resident of the Belay community and is survived by his mother, 
Mrs. Alice Yawn; one sister, Mrs. Hattie Prather and one brother, Harry Yawn.

Funeral services were held at Belah Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in 
charge of Rev. D. F. Anders, pastor of the Nolley Memorial Methodist Church 
at Jena, with interment in the Belah Cemetery.