Obituaries:  Floyd Bass, Sabine Parish       B-200
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 10, 1967
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Floyd Bass

  A logging accident, 14 miles southwest of Zwolle, in the Aimwell
community, killed Floyd Bass, 59, of Hemphill, Tex., Tuesday
morning, between 10:30 and 11. Deputy Sheriff R. B. McDonald
investigated the accident, and he said that as Bass was cutting a
hardwood tree off of the stump, it lodged in another tree, and
kicked up, hitting Bass in the face and chest. The butt of the
tree knocked Bass backwards, pinning him and his saw under the
tree. It killed him instantly.

  Cornell Ebarb, also of Hemphill, was decking logs with a
bulldozer nearby. When he started to deck the tree Bass had cut,
right before the tree that killed him, he noticed the tree
lodged. He said he did not see Bass or hear him, so he got off
the dozer to investigate, and found him pinned under the tree.

  Both men were working for A. A. Collins, logging contractor, who
was hauling for Chandler Lumber Co. of Hemphill.

  Case and Monk Funeral Home of Nacogdoches, Tex., took charge of
the body.