From: April 29, 1954 Winn Parish Enterprise
Final Rites For Merle Lynn McGee, Drowning Victim, Set For Friday A.M.
Funeral services for Merle Lynn McGee, 16 year old tenth grade student of the Calvin
High School will be held Friday morning at 10:00 o'clock at the Goldonna Baptist
Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Services will be conducted by
Rev. Jimmy Thorpe of Doyline, assisted by Rev.C. M. Robinson and Rev. Guy Murphy.The
time, 10:00 is tentative, depending on the arrival of a sister, Mrs. R.
B.Villanueva, from Los Angeles, California.
Merle Lynn McGee, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee, who reside at Coldwater Station,
drowned about 3:00 p.m. Tuesday when he was swept into the turbulent water of Black
Bayou at Allen Dam at the Winn-Natchitoches Parish line while fishing. Young McGee
had accompanied his brother in law from LaMarque, Texas, fishing.
It was while he was standing on the slope of a forward abuttment of the dam when he
apparently slipped or was swept into the water.
Reports of bystanders indicate that after slipping into the water the body was taken
down stream by the swift current. A fisherman nearby tried to save McGee by holding
out a fence pole after the youth came up from his plunge, but the boy lost his grasp
on the pole and sank again.
Officers said the bottom of the bayou at the dam site is strewn with boulders and it
is believed that McGee's body could have lodged between the rocks or else lodged in
an aperture at the bottom of the dam.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Earl Morris and members of the Natchitoches Fire
Department Rescue Squad began searching for the drowned boy shortly after 4p.m. The
body was recovered at 9:45 p.m. about 20 feet from where he was last seen going
down.
Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee; a twin brother, Gerald, another
brother, Carlson; three sisters, Mrs. R. B. Villanueva, Los Angeles,California, Mrs.
Julius Knighten, Goldonna, and Mrs. W. H. Leggett, LaMarque,Texas; two nieces,
Sharon Villanueva and Katie Knighten.
In deference to the popular student the Calvin High School will dismiss classes for
Friday. The choir at the final rites will be composed of the Calvin High School
chorus under the direction of Mrs. R. L. Terry. Classmates of the deceased will
serve as pallbearers, who are Arlin Weeks, R.A. McNaughton, Billy Jim Garrett, Billy
Lucky, A. D. Abels, Jason Bedgood,Claude L. O'Bryan, Wayne Kelly, Thurmon Malone,
and Joseph Franks.
Final Rites For Merle Lynn McGee, Drowning Victim, Set For Friday A.M.
Funeral services for Merle Lynn McGee, 16 year old tenth grade student of the Calvin
High School will be held Friday morning at 10:00 o'clock at the Goldonna Baptist
Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Services will be conducted by
Rev. Jimmy Thorpe of Doyline, assisted by Rev.C. M. Robinson and Rev. Guy Murphy.The
time, 10:00 is tentative, depending on the arrival of a sister, Mrs. R.
B.Villanueva, from Los Angeles, California.
Merle Lynn McGee, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee, who reside at Coldwater Station,
drowned about 3:00 p.m. Tuesday when he was swept into the turbulent water of Black
Bayou at Allen Dam at the Winn-Natchitoches Parish line while fishing. Young McGee
had accompanied his brother in law from LaMarque, Texas, fishing.
It was while he was standing on the slope of a forward abuttment of the dam when he
apparently slipped or was swept into the water.
Reports of bystanders indicate that after slipping into the water the body was taken
down stream by the swift current. A fisherman nearby tried to save McGee by holding
out a fence pole after the youth came up from his plunge, but the boy lost his grasp
on the pole and sank again.
Officers said the bottom of the bayou at the dam site is strewn with boulders and it
is believed that McGee's body could have lodged between the rocks or else lodged in
an aperture at the bottom of the dam.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Earl Morris and members of the Natchitoches Fire
Department Rescue Squad began searching for the drowned boy shortly after 4p.m. The
body was recovered at 9:45 p.m. about 20 feet from where he was last seen going
down.
Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee; a twin brother, Gerald, another
brother, Carlson; three sisters, Mrs. R. B. Villanueva, Los Angeles,California, Mrs.
Julius Knighten, Goldonna, and Mrs. W. H. Leggett, LaMarque,Texas; two nieces,
Sharon Villanueva and Katie Knighten.
In deference to the popular student the Calvin High School will dismiss classes for
Friday. The choir at the final rites will be composed of the Calvin High School
chorus under the direction of Mrs. R. L. Terry. Classmates of the deceased will
serve as pallbearers, who are Arlin Weeks, R.A. McNaughton, Billy Jim Garrett, Billy
Lucky, A. D. Abels, Jason Bedgood,Claude L. O'Bryan, Wayne Kelly, Thurmon Malone,
and Joseph Franks.
From: April 29, 1954 Winn Parish Enterprise
Final Rites For Merle Lynn McGee, Drowning Victim, Set For Friday A.M.
Funeral services for Merle Lynn McGee, 16 year old tenth grade student of the Calvin
High School will be held Friday morning at 10:00 o'clock at the Goldonna Baptist
Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Services will be conducted by
Rev. Jimmy Thorpe of Doyline, assisted by Rev.C. M. Robinson and Rev. Guy Murphy.The
time, 10:00 is tentative, depending on the arrival of a sister, Mrs. R.
B.Villanueva, from Los Angeles, California.
Merle Lynn McGee, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee, who reside at Coldwater Station,
drowned about 3:00 p.m. Tuesday when he was swept into the turbulent water of Black
Bayou at Allen Dam at the Winn-Natchitoches Parish line while fishing. Young McGee
had accompanied his brother in law from LaMarque, Texas, fishing.
It was while he was standing on the slope of a forward abuttment of the dam when he
apparently slipped or was swept into the water.
Reports of bystanders indicate that after slipping into the water the body was taken
down stream by the swift current. A fisherman nearby tried to save McGee by holding
out a fence pole after the youth came up from his plunge, but the boy lost his grasp
on the pole and sank again.
Officers said the bottom of the bayou at the dam site is strewn with boulders and it
is believed that McGee's body could have lodged between the rocks or else lodged in
an aperture at the bottom of the dam.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Earl Morris and members of the Natchitoches Fire
Department Rescue Squad began searching for the drowned boy shortly after 4p.m. The
body was recovered at 9:45 p.m. about 20 feet from where he was last seen going
down.
Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee; a twin brother, Gerald, another
brother, Carlson; three sisters, Mrs. R. B. Villanueva, Los Angeles,California, Mrs.
Julius Knighten, Goldonna, and Mrs. W. H. Leggett, LaMarque,Texas; two nieces,
Sharon Villanueva and Katie Knighten.
In deference to the popular student the Calvin High School will dismiss classes for
Friday. The choir at the final rites will be composed of the Calvin High School
chorus under the direction of Mrs. R. L. Terry. Classmates of the deceased will
serve as pallbearers, who are Arlin Weeks, R.A. McNaughton, Billy Jim Garrett, Billy
Lucky, A. D. Abels, Jason Bedgood,Claude L. O'Bryan, Wayne Kelly, Thurmon Malone,
and Joseph Franks.
Final Rites For Merle Lynn McGee, Drowning Victim, Set For Friday A.M.
Funeral services for Merle Lynn McGee, 16 year old tenth grade student of the Calvin
High School will be held Friday morning at 10:00 o'clock at the Goldonna Baptist
Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Services will be conducted by
Rev. Jimmy Thorpe of Doyline, assisted by Rev.C. M. Robinson and Rev. Guy Murphy.The
time, 10:00 is tentative, depending on the arrival of a sister, Mrs. R.
B.Villanueva, from Los Angeles, California.
Merle Lynn McGee, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee, who reside at Coldwater Station,
drowned about 3:00 p.m. Tuesday when he was swept into the turbulent water of Black
Bayou at Allen Dam at the Winn-Natchitoches Parish line while fishing. Young McGee
had accompanied his brother in law from LaMarque, Texas, fishing.
It was while he was standing on the slope of a forward abuttment of the dam when he
apparently slipped or was swept into the water.
Reports of bystanders indicate that after slipping into the water the body was taken
down stream by the swift current. A fisherman nearby tried to save McGee by holding
out a fence pole after the youth came up from his plunge, but the boy lost his grasp
on the pole and sank again.
Officers said the bottom of the bayou at the dam site is strewn with boulders and it
is believed that McGee's body could have lodged between the rocks or else lodged in
an aperture at the bottom of the dam.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Earl Morris and members of the Natchitoches Fire
Department Rescue Squad began searching for the drowned boy shortly after 4p.m. The
body was recovered at 9:45 p.m. about 20 feet from where he was last seen going
down.
Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. McGee; a twin brother, Gerald, another
brother, Carlson; three sisters, Mrs. R. B. Villanueva, Los Angeles,California, Mrs.
Julius Knighten, Goldonna, and Mrs. W. H. Leggett, LaMarque,Texas; two nieces,
Sharon Villanueva and Katie Knighten.
In deference to the popular student the Calvin High School will dismiss classes for
Friday. The choir at the final rites will be composed of the Calvin High School
chorus under the direction of Mrs. R. L. Terry. Classmates of the deceased will
serve as pallbearers, who are Arlin Weeks, R.A. McNaughton, Billy Jim Garrett, Billy
Lucky, A. D. Abels, Jason Bedgood,Claude L. O'Bryan, Wayne Kelly, Thurmon Malone,
and Joseph Franks.
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