Obit: George J. Strickland, 1967 Lincoln Parish, LA 
  Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA
  71291
  
  


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   Monroe Morning World, Wednesday, February 15, 1967 - 7-A
                                                           
              Youth Dies After Area Auto Wreck
                              
  RUSTON (Special) - A Ruston youth who turned his auto off the highway in
order to miss a stopped school bus, died late Monday in St. Francis Hospital
in Monroe. His brother was   injured.
  
  State police said George J. Strickland, 17, was heading south on his way to
school in Choudrant with his brother, Michael 14, when he came to the top of a
hill where a bus was stopped, and veered  off and hit a tree. 
  
  Michael was in "good" condition Tuesday at Lincoln General Hospital with a
fractured leg. 
  
  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Emmanuel Baptist Church
with the Rev. A. H. Johnson officiating. 
  
  Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Ruston under the direction of
Kilpatrick's Funeral Home here.
  
  Survivors include his parents: Mr. & Mrs. George R. Strickland of Ruston;
two other  brothers: Tim and Mark; a sister: Jill;  his maternal grandparents:
Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Walton of Farmerville; his paternal grandmother: Mrs. Effie
Strickland of Ruston.