Obituaries:  Clinton Aubrey Craig, Sabine Parish       C-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 16, 1973
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Clinton Aubrey Craig

  Clinton Aubrey Craig, 40, of Converse, drowned in Toledo Bend
Lake Wednesday, Aug. 8, about 6:30 p.m., in 55 feet of water. The
site of the accident was near Old Blue Lake out from Zwolle.

  Craig, with his brothers, Gaylon and Guy, and Marie Garcie, were
on the lake fishing and boating, when Clinton decided to go
swimming for a few minutes. He said he was going to see how deep
the water was., He dived down, then surfaced for just a second
and dived again. That time he didn't come up.

  The three people in the boat tied a shirt around a tree near
where Clinton went down, and then notified the Sabine Sheriff's
Department. Sheriff's Deputies, Dub Jeter, and Travis Bennett,
and Louisiana State Police Officer Raymond Isgitt, went to the
scene. After searching for only 17 minutes, they located the body
on the bottom of the lake.

  Funeral services were held Friday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m., in the
Midway Baptist Church in Converse. Burial was in the Shiloh
Cemetery near Converse, under the direction of Drewett Funeral
Home of Mansfield.

  Survivors include three brothers, William E. Craig of
Marthaville, Louis R. Craig of Converse, and Gaylon Craig of
Zwolle; a sister, Mrs. Elaine Penry of Beaumont, Texas.