Obituary: Connie Mack Doxey - Obit #2, 1941, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Michael Drewett, 6321 Clegg Rd., Pensacola, FL  32526
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Source:  Winn Parish Enterprise, Thursday, Dec. 11, 1941
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Funeral Services for Connie Doxey To Be Held Sat.
Flyer Killed At Norfolk Will Be Buried At Mt. Zion Cemetery
     Funeral services will be held for Connie Mack Doxey, 26, at the Mt.
Zion church near Montgomery at 2 p.m. Saturday.  Interment will 
be made in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
     Ensign Doxey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Doxey of Ebenezer, was
instantly killed Saturday, Dec. 6, when his plane failed to come out of
a dive while he was practicing a bombing routine at the Norfolk, Va.,
naval base.
     Mr. Doxey was born in Ward 5.  He finished the 7th grade at
Ebenezer and graduated from the Montgomery high school in 1933. 
Throughout his school career he was outstanding scholastically, and
excelled in boxing and basketball.  He entered Louisiana State
 Normal in the Fall of 1933, and graduated in 1937.  He served in 
the National Guard at Natchitoches, and worked his way through 
college by driving a school bus.  After graduating from Normal he taught
school one year at Gaars Mill, and one year each at Fairfield and Aloah
in Grant parish.  He enrolled in naval flying school at Jacksonville,
Fla., in Oct., 1940, and received his wings in September, 1941.  He was
stationed with the officers' division of 
the 72nd Fighting Squadron at Norfolk, Va.
     Ensign Doxey is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Doxey;
5 brothers, K. C. Doxey, of Houston, Texas; C. M. Doxey of Natchitoches;
J. R. Doxey of Bossier City; Ernest Doxey of Longview, Texas; and W. L.
Doxey of Baton Rouge; and three sisters, Mrs. E. N. Faust, Dallas; Mrs.
C. P. Vest, Dallas, and Mrs. D. T. Carter, Cedar Grove.
(Photo)
Connie Doxey son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Doxey of Ward Five, who was
killed last Saturday in an airplane crash when his plane failed to come
out of a dive at the Naval air field in Norfolk, Va., while he was
practice flying.  Funeral services will be held for this former Winn
parish teacher at Mt. Zion Saturday.
(Shreveport Times photo)