Obituaries: A/1/C Bobby Charles Mixon, 1953, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 17 and September 24, 1953 Winn Parish Enterprise

No. 1

Remains Of Local Airman To Arrive Here For Burial

Funeral services for Airman 2/C Bobby C. Mixon, 22 year old Winnfield man
killed last June in an airplane crash in Japan, are scheduled here next week,
it was learned today.

The remains are to arrive here Monday afternoon, and will lie in state at the
Hixson Funeral Home chapel until the funeral, to be held in Laurel Heights
Baptist Church.  Exact date for the funeral has not been set.

Rev. H. J. Mott and Rev. Waynon H. Mott will conduct the funeral services,
with burial in Gorham Cemetery in Joyce under direction of Hixson Brothers
Funeral Home.

Airman Mixon is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Mixon of Route 2,
Winnfield; one brother, David Mixon, two sisters, Nedra and Cynthia Marie, all
of Winnfield, Route 2, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Gorham of
Winnfield, Route 2.

Young Mixon was killed June 18 when the Air Force transport plane which he was
aboard, crashed in Japan.  He had spent a furlough from duty in Korea and was
returning form Japan when the crash occurred.

He was a former Western Auto store employee and a member of the Laurel Heights
Baptist Church.


No. 2

Burial Rites For Winn Airman Held On Tuesday

Burial services were held Tuesday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m. in Laurel Heights
Baptist Church for Airman 1/C Bobby Charles Mixon, victim of a military
airplane crash in Japan on June 18.

A/1/C Mixon, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Mixon of Winnfield, Route 2, had
been in the Far East since February 24 and was returning from a leave in Japan
after duty in Korea, when the fatal crash occurred.

Ministers officiating the funeral were Rev. Waynon Mott, pastor of the Laurel
Heights Baptist Church, Rev. H. J. Mott of Monroe, a former pastor of the
church, and Rev. D. W. McDaniel of Winnfield, pastor of the Walker Baptist
Church in Jackson Parish.

Burial was in Gorham Cemetery under direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

Young Mixon, 22 years old, is survived by his parents, one brother, David
Mixon, two sisters, Nedra and Cynthia Marie Mixon, and his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Gorham.

Pallbearers were James Guin, Glyn Guin, G. W. Jones, David McCartney, Walter
Ross, Buddy Foster, M. J. Foster, and Manson Howard.