Obituaries: Clinton Lee Roberts, 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 2, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Local Youth Dies; 2 Hurt In Crash

A Winnfield youth was killed and two others injured in a one car accident
four miles north of Columbia on U. S. 165 Saturday morning before dawn.

Dead is Clinton Lee Roberts, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. "Bud"
Roberts, 409 S. Jones Street.

Injured were Silas Porter Creel, 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Creel,
Old Joyce, and Terry Williams, 19, son of Mrs. Aliene Williams, 500 Elliott
Street.  Creel has a fractured jaw, face cuts, and bruises and Williams has a
fractured rib.  He was recovering from a serious crash which happened last
year and was in another before that, each time a passenger.

Driver of the car, Richard B. Green, 19, of Clarence, was released after
observation at a Columbia hospital.

Officers investigating the crash reported Green lost control of the ar in a
curve and it smashed into a tree.  Two years ago a Columbia man died in a
similar accident at the same tree.

Roberts was employed at the Hunt Plywood Plant near Dodson.  The four youths
left a party here about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and were returning to Monroe when
the accident happened.

Funeral services for Roberts were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist
Church with Rev. Dr. W. L. Holcomb, Rev. D. __ Callender, and Rev. C. C.
Martin officiating.  Burial was in Garden of Memories Cemetery under direction
of Southern Funeral Home.

Serving as pallbearers were Billy Plunkett, Rudolph Foster, F. L. Ashley, Gary
Whatley, H. L. Allen, Tom Harris, J. W. Cotton, and Henry Hodges.

In addition to his parents, Roberts is survived by his maternal grandmother,
Mrs. Bessie Sandifer, Fishville.

Out of town relatives attending the funeral included Mrs. Opal Maddox, 
Annette, and Kim, Jackson, Mrs. Eunvahee Cardwell, Jackson; Mrs. Bernice 
Ferguson and family of Natchitoches; Mrs. Lawrence Sandifer, Tioga; Mrs. 
Matthew Sandifer, Dry Prong; Mrs. Ted Chandler, Bentley; Mrs. Bessie Sandifer,
Fishville; Mrs. C. E. Sandifer, Epps; A. C. Sandifer and family, Lake
Providence; Misses Overa and Nelda Sandifer, Lake Providence, Mrs. Ila Hudson,
Fishville; Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Joe King and family, Shreveport; Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Roberts, Epps; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Roberts and daughter, Lake Providence;
Mr. and Mrs. Reecie Dan Sandifer and daughter, Bentley; Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Sandifer, Winnfield; Miss Sis Roberts, Jackson; Mrs. Lucy Hines, Dallas; Mr.
and Mrs. Colie Roberts, Winnsboro; Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Roberts, Monroe; Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Burgess, Monroe; Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Alderman, Colfax; Mr. and
Mrs. Antwine Sandifer, Colfax.