Obituaries: Hoyt Willie Harrington, Sr., 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 8, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

H. W. Harrington, Sr., 53, Succumbs, Burial At Sardis

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday for Hoyt Willie Harrington, Sr.,
53, of Winnfield, who died Friday night, June 2, 1967.

Services were held at Crossroads Baptist Church near Sardis community with
Rev. Ernie Yocum and Rev. W. C. Bounds officiating.  Burial was in the Sardis
Cemetery under direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Winnfield.

Harrington, a game warden with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries
Commission, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack Friday night while
attending a citizens meeting at the Winn courthouse on pollution of the
Dugdemona River, and game management.

A doctor, nurse, and his son, John Harrington, tried several minutes to revive
him with hypodermics, heart massage, and artificial respiration, administered
in the courtroom where he was stricken, but he was dead on arrival at Martin's
Hospital.

A native of Flora and a member of the Crossroads Baptist Church, Harrington
is survived by his widow, Mrs. Myrtie Rice Harrington of Winnfield; four
sons, Hoyt W. Harrington, Jr., of Heflin, John Thomas Harrington of Many, Chet
Rickey Harrington of Winnfield, and Phil Harrington of Winnfield; a brother,
Arthur Harrington of Camden, Ark.; six sisters, Mrs. Nora Clark of
Natchitoches, Mrs. Louise Campbell of Winnfield, Mrs. Lucille Falgout of
Morgan City, Mrs. Gracie Crump of Sulphur, Mrs. Odessa Holley of Houston,
Texas, and Mrs. Joyce Broadway of Robeline; and five grandchildren.

Pallbearers were members of the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.