Obituaries:  T. J. Booker, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       B-260
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 26, 1967
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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T. J. Booker

  Four persons were killed in Sabine Parish traffic accidents,
Saturday night, according to Sgt. C. J. Miller, and Trooper
Wingate Dowden, two of the investigating officers for the State
Police.

  Three Negroes were killed when the car in which they were
traveling hit an approach railing to the overpass on U. S. Hwy.
171 at Noble. The railing went through the car, and the car spun
around, throwing out the two survivors. The accident happened at
10:21 p.m. The investigating officers said the five occupants of
the car were all drinking.

  Dead at the scene of the accident were Lloyd Lee West, 26, of
Mansfield, the driver of the car, and Preston Lee Harrison, 28,
of Oxford. T. J. Booker, 18, of Mansfield, was taken to
Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, where he died
the next day.

  Others in the car were Lennon Booker, 19, of Mansfield, and
Gabriel Beaver, 17, of Pleasant Hill. Both were injured slightly,
taken to Sabine Clinic at Zwolle, and released.

  The investigating officers said the car was traveling
approximately 90 miles per hour when the accident happened.