Obituaries: Burton Cleotis Boone, 1939, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American 
Date: September 8, 1939
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B. Cleotis Boone Fatally Injured Near Lockport

Falls on 3200-Volt Wire While Working on Transformer

Burns and shock from a 3200-volt wire received while at work near Lockport,
proved fatal to Burton Cleotis Boone, a former Winnfield resident, last
Saturday afternoon about two o'clock.

Mr. Boone with another lineman, both employed by the Louisiana Public Service
Company, were working on a transformer on a pole and in some unaccountable
manner Boone fell on the wires.  The sparks from Boone's body attracted his
companion who by means of a rope pulled him free and to the ground.  His face
and body on one side were badly burned and that with the high voltage shock
rendered him unconscious causing his death about one and one half hours later.

The body was prepared for burial and brought to Pollock where funeral services
were held at the Baptist Church conducted by the Rev. A. M. Green, pastor,
followed by the concluding rites at the grave led by D. L. Lawrence, reader at
the First Church of Christ-Scientists, of Alexandria, Sunday afternoon at four
o'clock.  Interment was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Pollock.

Surviving the deceased are his widow, who was the former Miss Fay Whitaker of
Pollock, mother, Mrs. W. A. Boone of Winnfield, two brothers, W. L. Boone of
Rochelle and L. A. Boone of Winnfield; four sisters, Miss Inez Boone and Miss
Elizabeth Boone of Winnfield, Mrs. John Houston of Warren, R. I., and Mrs. F.
P. Verrett of Raceland.

Pallbearers included the men with whom he was associated in his work at
Lockport.  They were Vincent Adams, Claude Toups, Louis Aucoin, Horace
Clements, Whitney Chesson and D. T. Creteni.