Obituaries:  Malcolm Corley, Sabine Parish       C-640
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 12, 1973
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Malcolm Corley

  The search is continuing for the body of a 16 year old
Henderson, Texas youth, who drowned in Toledo Lake, out from
Pilcher's Point, Saturday morning, according to Sabine Parish
Sheriff George R. Cook. He was identified as Malcolm Corley.

  Sheriff Cook said Corley and Vance Mondello, 17, also of
Henderson, were about a mile or a mile and a half from Pilcher's
Point, in a 14 ft aluminum boat, with a 6 h.p. motor.

  The motor hit a snag, and knocked it loose from the boat, and at
the same time, a big wave turned the boat over. The two youths
started to swim, in an attempt to catch their life jackets, but
the wind blew the jackets away.

  Mondello saw he couldn't swim with his clothes on, and pulled
everything off but his shorts. He tied his jacket on a snag, and
started swimming from tree to tree, headed for the bank.

  The last time he saw Corley, he was hanging on a log, begging
Mondello not to try to make the swim.

  Mondello swam about a mile, and got to the opening between the
wooded area and the bank. He yelled, and some people who were
about to go fishing, heard and rescued him. He was taken to
Fraser Hospital by ambulance.

  The fishermen then went to where the accident happened, but
could not find Corley.

  The Sheriff's Office received the call at 10:30, and immediately
sent a boat and divers to the spot. They recovered the motor in
35 to 40 feet of water. The boat and gas can were also recovered.

  Sheriff Cook said dragging operations and diving have gone on
every day, to no avail. He said his men will stay on the job
until the body is recovered.