Obituaries:  Timothy McComic, Sabine Parish       M-252
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 29, 1980
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Timothy McComic

  A five year old child drowned in a section of Toledo Bend Lake
at Sportsman's Paradise at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 27, according
to Sabine Parish Sheriff Alfice Brumley.

  According to Sheriff Brumley, Mike McComic, 11, and his little
brother, Timothy, were fishing off a boathouse dock around noon,
when the incident occurred.

  The elder child went to the house for a drink of water, and when
he returned, he couldn't locate his brother. He ran back home to
tell his mother, and by that time, other residents of the
subdivision were responding to the calls for help from the
family.

  Gerald Wayne Hammer, a resident, heard the commotion, and ran to
the water's edge. He dove into the 10' deep water, recovered the
tiny body, and began artificial respiration until Jenkin's
Ambulance Service arrived.

  The child was pronounced dead on arrival at Fraser Hospital
North.

  Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, May 29, in the
Warren Meadows Funeral Home Chapel at 2 p.m. Officiating will be
the Rev. Bobby Moore, and the Rev. Ron Ellis.

  Burial will be in the Fenders Cemetery, under the direction of
the Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tommie McComic of
Many; two brothers, Mike McComic, and Tony McComic, both of Many;
his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Labert Leggett of Converse; and
his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Claude McComic of Many.