Obituaries:  James M. Leggett, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       L-230
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 25, 1966
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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James M. Leggett

  James M. Leggett, 40, a former Converse resident, was fatally
injured in a Houston construction accident, late Friday, March
18.

  Leggett, an employee of a Houston waterproofing firm, was dead
on arrival at Methodist Hospital in Houston, after the
scaffolding on which he was working toppled, plunging him to the
gravel roof of a ground level building 50 feet below.

  Leggett reportedly was calking a building under construction at
Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital when the scaffolding collapsed.

  A co-worker, Benjamin L. Matthews, 40, Houston, sustained
serious injuries in the fall.

  Funeral services for Leggett were held at 1 p.m., Sunday, in the
Green Funeral Home Chapel in Houston. A second service also was
held at 2 p.m., Monday, in the First National Funeral Home Chapel
in Natchitoches, Burial was in the Fern Park Cemetery of
Natchitoches.