Obituaries:  Freddie Behan, Sabine Parish       B-500
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jun 14, 1957
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Freddie Behan

  14 Jun 1957 - Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, June
10 at the Warren Community Baptist church for Freddie Behan, 16,
of Route 4, Many, who was killed in a car wreck Saturday morning
18 miles north of Orange, Texas. Burial was held in Mt. Carmel
cemetery under the direction of the Noguess Funeral Home of
Orange.

  Two of the youth's brothers and his sister-in-law were injured
in the wreck. They are Mr. and Mrs. Derrell Wayne Behan of Port
Arthur, and Kenneth Behan, of Many. Darrell was reportedly
critically hurt and was taken to a Beaumont hospital. Mrs. Behan
and Kenneth were taken to an Orange hospital.

  Officers said the Behan auto collided with a transport truck on
State Highway 235 north of Orange.

  The youth is survived by is parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Behan of
Route 4, Many; five brothers, Austin, of the U. S. Army in
Germany, Kenneth, Joe and Bobby, all of Many and Darrell Wayne of
Orange, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Gerald (Eunice) Oxley, of Lake
Charles; and his grandmother, Mrs. Delpha Oxley of Many.

  Pallbearers were Freddie's classmates of Mt. Carmel High
School: Bobby Montgomery, Bobby Hayes, Nolan Ainsworth, Lovan
Westfall, Jimmy Pleasant, Fred Isgitt, Woodrow Briggs and Buddy
Wilson.