Obituaries:  Don Malmay, Sabine Parish       M-450
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 24, 1972
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Don Malmay

  A 20 year old Zwolle man, Don Malmay, was instantly killed
Tuesday afternoon, by crushing head injuries, as he worked on a
tree planter, about two miles east of Many.

  The accident happened between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m., one quarter
mile off the Jerusalem Cemetery Road. Malmay was employed by the
Galco Co. of Zwolle, which was under contract to the Boise
Southern Co., to plant pine seedlings.

  Galco is owned by Glenn Doyle Vines and Lester Norris, both of
Zwolle. The two, along with John Britt of Noble, were working
with Malmay when the incident occurred.

  Chief Deputy Alfice Brumley of the Sabine Parish Sheriff's Dept.
made a thorough on-the-scene investigation. Deputy Parish
Coroner, Dr. Warren Founds, pronounced Malmay dead at the scene,
saying he had a broken neck and fractured skull in addition to
other injuries. The body was removed from the scene by Raymond
West of Warren Meadows Funeral Home of Many. Also at the scene
were Bob Guillory, and Marion Tannehill of Boise Southern.

  The investigation showed that Malmay was riding on the tree
planter being pulled by a D-4 Caterpillar, operated by Norris. It
was working along side another unit, with Vines operating the
caterpillar, and Britt working in the tree planter.

  The tree planter is made so that if a man who is working inside
stays inside, he is not likely to get injured.

  It is assumed that Malmay stuck his head out the planter to look
at Vines and Britt in the other machine to his right. Just as he
did this, the planter he was on rolled by a large dead oak tree
that was still standing to his left. It crushed his head between
an angle bar on the planter and the tree.

  Norris commented that the four have been working together since
the second week in December, and had planted over a million
seedlings. "We only lacked 10 or 12 thousand seedlings in being
through," he ended.

  Funeral services for Malmay will be held Thursday, at 10 a.m.,
in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Zwolle, with interment in the
church cemetery, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral
Home. Msgr. Robert C. Friend will officiate.

  Survivors include his wife, Charlotte; a daughter, Lisa; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Malmay of Zwolle; six brothers, Gary
of Zwolle, Ray of Bossier City, Dennis, and Michael of
Shreveport, Thomas of San Diego, and Patrick of Houston; and two
sisters, Mrs. J. C. Cooper of Converse, and Mrs. Linda Delaney of
Shreveport.