Obituaries: Harry Gene Garrard, 1963, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 24, 1963 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Four Men Die In Highway Crash Near Goldonna Sunday Morning

Four Winn Parish men were killed when their car slammed into a road embankment
near Goldonna at 3:15 a.m. Sunday, October 20.

The dead are Kenneth U. Williams, 16, of Atlanta; Harry Gene Garrard, 25, of
Winnfield; Lloyd E. Waxley, 52, of Winnfield; and Quincy C. Jordan, 33, of
Joyce.

Funeral services for all four were held Monday in Winnfield.

Mr. Waxley was one of two Democratic candidates for the Democratic State
Central Committee post.  He was the brother of Ward Nine School Board member
Roy T. Waxley.

Goldonna Town Marshal Frazier, among the first to arrive at the scend, gave
this account:

The car was traveling toward Goldonna on the Goldonna-Creston Road (La. 156).

It went out of control in a severe curve, left the highway, ramming into the
embankment along the side of the Point or Lake Road which intersects La. 156. 
The car stoped on the side of the Point Rd.

Mr. Waxley and Mr. Garrard were thrown onto the highway.  Mr. Jordan and Mrs.
Williams were found in the back seat of the demolished car.

Frazier said that Roy Strickland, who lives nearby, heard the crash and drove
to the scene.  Strickland, after seeing what had happened, returned and
notified Frazier who had also heard the accident, which occurred about a mile
southwest of Goldonna.

It was the second fatal accident in this same curve in two years.

Two Negroes were killed in a similar accident when a car carrying six persons
left the road and hit the embankment in 1961.

Jordan Services

Rites for Mr. Jordan were held Monday at 2:30 p.m. in Hixson Funeral Chapel
with the Rev. Kenneth Wall and the Rev. Charles Christie officiating. 
Survivors include a son, Quinton Earl, a daughter, Connie, his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Houston Jordan, all of Winnfield; two brothers, Vernon Aubrey Jordan,
Kilgore, Tex., and Billy Jordan, Winnfield.

Burial was in Jordan Hill Cemetery.

Jimmy Howard, Oscar Simmons, Webbie Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Ardis McElroy, and
Pat Burns served as pallbearers.

Williams Rites

Survivors of Mr. Williams include his wife, two sons, Raymond B. And Gary
Williams, both of Atlanta; two daughters, Mrs. Claude Knotts, Saline, and Mrs.
Bennie Mooney, Joyce; three brothers, G. D. Williams and L. B. Williams, of
Atlanta, and Donnie Williams, Winnfield; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Driggers,
Jonesboro, and Mrs. Artie Gresham, Houston; his mother, Mrs. Cordia Williams
and seven grandchildren.

Waxley Rites

Mr. Waxley is survived by his mother, Mrs. J. F. Waxley, a brother, Roy T.
Waxley, and a sister, Mrs. E. E. Edmonds, all of Winnfield.

Services were in the Corinth Baptist Church with the Rev. Alson Jeter,
assisted by Rev. George Foster, officiating.  Burial was in the church
cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Thomas Waxley, Clyde Gresham, E. H. Farr, Eugene Edmonds, Woody Sonnier, and
Robert Smith served as pallbearers.

Garrard Rites

Mr. Garrard is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Garrard, Sr., of
Winnfield; a brother, Herbert Garrard, Jr., Lake Jackson, Tex.; two sisters,
Mrs. Elizabeth Chesney, New Orleans, and Mrs. H. C. Little, Baton Rouge.

Services were held in the Southern Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. C. C.
Martin and the Rev. David White officiating.  Burial was in the Winnfield
Cemetery.