Obituaries:  Mrs. Ollie Watson Hatfield, Sabine Parish       H-314
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 11, 1960
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Ollie Watson Hatfield

  Mrs. Ollie Watson Hatfield, a Shreveport woman, was killed, and
five other persons injured, (two of them Many residents) in a
three-car collision on Highway 171 near Many, Sunday morning at
10:45 a.m. Mrs. Marcie Andries and her daughter Frances, daughter
and granddaughter of Mrs. Hatfield, all of Shreveport, were
seriously injured, and in a critical condition at the Fraser
Sanitarium. Also injured in the wreck was Sgt. L. Nelson of
Barksdale Field, driver of one of the wrecked cars. Virgil Ware,
driver of the third car, and Hoyt Pilcher, a passenger in Ware's
car, both of Many. Mr. Pilcher is in serious condition. Mr. Ware
is in Sabine Clinic, Zwolle, his injuries not believed serious.

  According to reports from state troopers who investigated the
wreck, said that Mrs. Andries was traveling south, when she
attempted to pass a car at the crest of a hill, and collided head
on with the car driven by Sgt. Nelson. When Mrs. Andries and
Nelson's autos collided, Nelson's careened into Ware's
automobile.

  Investigating the accident with Trooper Brown, were Deputies
Harold W. Sandel, and Truett Walden of the Sabine parish
Sheriff's Department.