Lake Charles American Press,
Wednesday, July 23, 1941, p. 1:
English Bayou Girl
Killed, Three Hurt in Wreck
A 14-YEAR-OLD English Bayou girl was killed and her
17-year-old sister injured in an automobile accident
about 9 o'clock last night two and one-half miles east
of Sulphur on the Old Spanish Trail near the Johnson
sawmill.
Betty Ann
Leger was killed instantly when the car in which she and
three others were riding went off the pavement and out
of control when the driver tried to get back on and
turned over several times, according to a state police
report. The vehicle, owned and driven by Douglas
Frederick, 20, of Sulphur, came to a stop upside down in
a ditch.
Others
Hurt
Dorothy Leger, 17, received head and knee injuries and
was taken to St. Patrick's hospital. She is not believed
to be seriously hurt. The two sisters were rushed to the
hospital following the accident but the younger girl was
dead on arrival. Frederick and Willis Viator, the fourth
passenger in the car, were uninjured.
According to
a report by State Troopers George Cooke and Eldon
Allain, Betty Ann Leger probably was thrown through the
windshield as the car hurtled over on the concrete
highway.
A coroner's
inquest, called by Dr. E. L. Clement, parish coroner,
was under way at 10 o'clock this morning at the Hixson
funeral home.
Services
Set
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today at the
Pentecostal church on English Bayou road with Rev. J. W.
Evans officiating. Burial will be in Goos cemetery with
the Hixson funeral home in charge of arrangements.
Survivors
include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leger; three
brothers, J. W., J. C., and Jeff Leger, all of Lake
Charles; six sisters, Mrs. Ruth LeBrun, of Sulphur,
Dorothy, Zora, Edith, Ethel and Lucille Leger, all of
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