Obituaries:  Joe D. Bush & Irma Hunter Morgan, 1970, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From:  March 12, 1970 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American

Two Winnfield Negroes Die In Wreck Saturday

Two Winnfield residents were killed and two others injured in a one-car
accident on U. S. Hwy. 84, 3.2 miles east of Winnfield, at about 2:50 p.m.
Saturday, according to State Trooper A. W. Warren.  All were Negroes.

Warren said a 1965 Ford driven by Irma Hunter Morgan, 37, 100 Robertson St.,
left the highway as it traveled west on U. S. 84.  The car went off the road
to the left, hit a highway sign, went through a fence, jumped a creek and
crashed into a pine tree, Warren said.

Killed in the crash were the driver and a passenger, Joe D. Bush, 28, 903
Robinson St., the trooper said.  Taken to Winnfield General Hospital and then
transferred to out-of-town hospitals with severe injuries were McKinley Fox,
36, 900 Thompson St., and Barbara Laverna Crockett, 26, 709 McArthur St.

Fox is the owner of the car, the trooper reported.  Warren said the vehicle
traveled 325 feet after leaving the road.  He said the operator apparently
lost control of the car, adding that the car was traveling at a high rate of
speed.

The bodies were taken to Ben Johnson Funeral Home. Funeral services for Irma
Morgan are scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at Mt. Oliver Baptist Church with
burial in Jena.  Arrangements on services for Joe Bush are incomplete.

The deaths are the first and second traffic fatalities of the year for Winn
Parish.