Obituaries:  Thomas Leone, Sabine Parish       L-500
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 19, 1976
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Thomas Leone

  Two residents of Zwolle were pronounced dead on arrival at
Confederate Memorial Medical Center late Monday, Feb. 16, after
they were removed from the wreckage of an automobile at West 70th
Street and Rasberry Lane in Shreveport, according to Shreveport
police.

  The victims were identified as Melton J. Sepulvado, 18, whose
address was listed as a post office box at Zwolle; and Thomas
Leone, 20, Route 2, Zwolle.

  Patrolman J. F. Lewis said a witness told him a 1972 hardtop
two-door vehicle, apparently driven by Sepulvado, was southbound
on Rasberry Lane at a high rate of speed, when the vehicle went
out of control and rammed into a ditch at 10:42 p.m.

  Lewis said the Caddo Parish coroner was not at the scene, so the
two victims were taken by ambulance to Confederate Memorial.

  Lewis said there was no sign of life when he reached the scene.
Shreveport firemen were called to assist in removing the victims,
who were pinned in the car.

  Lewis said both apparently were killed instantly. The car was
estimated to have been traveling at a speed in excess of 90 miles
per hour.

  Shreveport police said the two deaths hiked the city's traffic
fatalities to five for the year.

  Joint funeral services will be held at the St. Joseph Catholic
Church in Zwolle on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 10 a.m. Father Patrick
Scully will officiate. Burials will be in the St. Joseph
Cemetery, under the direction of the Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Melton J. Sepulvado is survived by his mother, Mrs. Marie
Sepulvado Craig of Zwolle; four brothers, Bill Garcie of
Shepherd, Tex., Frankie Sepulvado, Steven Sepulvado, and Johnny
Sepulvado, all of Zwolle; two sisters, Mrs. Linda Bass of
Shreveport, and Janet Rivers of Zwolle; and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Earline Sepulvado of Zwolle.

  Pallbearers for Sepulvado will be Johnny Paddie, Robert Paddie,
Terry Sepulvado, Lennis Ray Meshell, Darryl Sepulvado, and
Raymond Bass.

  Thomas Edwin Leone is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Simon Leone Sr. of Zwolle; three brothers, Simon Leone Jr., and
Tony Ray Leone, both of Zwolle, and Daniel Leone of Shreveport;
and four sisters, Mrs. Johnny Ebarb, and Mrs. Bobby Duncan, both
of Shreveport, Mrs. Curtis Paddie, and Miss Pauline Leone, both
of Zwolle.