Obituaries: Patsy Lee Holmes, 1958, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 9, 1958 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Georgetown Girl Killed As Deer Causes Collision

A 16 year old Georgetown girl, Patsy Lee Holmes, died Friday night in an
Alexandria hospital of injuries received that morning in a deer-car-truck
collision in Grant Parish.

The accident occurred at 8:50 a.m. Friday, about nine miles north of Pollock
on U. S. 165, when a truck driven by Sylvester Edwards of Seagoville, Texas,
struck an 11 point buck which ran into the highway, and skidded out of control
into the path of an oncoming car driven by Ralph Ward Holmes, father of the
fatally injured girl.

Both drivers wee injured as well as Eddie and Jane C. Holmes, two other
children of Holmes who were in his auto.  They were all hospitalized in
Alexandria.

Patsy Lee Holmes was a junior at Georgetown High School where she was a school
beauty for the past two years.  Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m.
at the Georgetown Baptist Church, with burial in Greenwood Memorial Cemetery
in Pineville, under direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

She is survived by her parents, one sister, Jane, two brothers, Charles and
Eddie, all of Georgetown.