Obituaries:  Delma Lea Milligan, Sabine Parish       M-425
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 22, 1979
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Delma Lea Milligan

  A 39 year old Dodson woman was accidentally shot and killed
while sitting on a deer stand in the Tannehill Community near
Winnfield, Saturday morning, Nov. 17.

  Dead at the scene was Delma Lea Milligan, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Roy Newman of Florien.

  Winn Parish Sheriff's deputies rescue squad members, and
Wildlife and Fisheries Agents responded to the 7 a.m. call.

  Authorities said that Mrs. Milligan was wearing proper hunter's
orange when she was fatally wounded. Ballistic tests were being
performed by the crime lab to determine the caliber of the gun
(or guns) fired into the deer stand.

  Funeral services were held at the Toro Baptist Church in Florien
on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. The Rev. Benny Crittenden
officiated. Burial was in the Toro Cemetery, under the direction
of the Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Survivors, other than her parents, include two sons, Stan
Gilbert Milligan, and Richard Walton Milligan, both of Dodson;
one daughter, Edith Elizabeth Milligan of Pisgah; three brothers,
Raymond Newman, and Archie L. Newman, both of Florien, and
William F. Newman of Bossier City; and three sisters, Sue
Livingston, and Ella Chism, both of Many, and Reba Lorie Martinez
of Los Osos, California.

  Pallbearers were Thomas Hugh Chism, Billy W. Chism, Hubert
Semons, David Sandel, Steve Powell, and Charles Chism.