Obituaries: Connie Mack Doxey, 1941, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 12, 1941 Winnfield News-American

Connie Mack Doxey, Ensign in U. S. Navy, Killed at Norfolk, Va.

Funeral services for Ensign Connie Mack Doxey, 26, a former teacher in the
Atlanta School, will be held at Mt. Zion Cemetery today.

Ensign Doxey was instantly killed last Saturday when his plane failed to come
out of a dive while he was practicing a bombing routine at Norfolk, Va., naval
base.  At the time of his death he was serving with the seventy-second
fighting squadron.

He was graduated from Louisiana State Normal in the spring of 1939 and
enrolled in the flying school at Jacksonville, Fla., in November 1940 and
received his wings in September of this year.

Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Doxey, Montgomery, five
brothers, J. R. Doxey, Bossier City, E. M. Doxey, Natchitoches, Ernest Doxey,
Longview, Tex., K. C. Doxey, Houston, Texas, and Willie L. Doxey, Baton
Rouge; three sisters, Mrs. D. F. Carter, Shreveport, Mrs. E. N. Faust,
and Mrs. C. P. West, both of Dallas, Texas.