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Donald Ray Hale - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal October 16, 1969

Final Rites Held For Tallulah Minister

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday for Donald Ray Hale, Tallulah minister at the Tallulah 
Church of Christ with Bob Tholman of Greenville, Miss. officiating. Burial was in Providence Memorial 
Cemetery here, under direction of Crothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Hale, 37, was killed instantly when his car was in a collision with another vehicle driven by Claude 
Faulkenberry, 57, of Bastrop. Faulkenberry was taken to Mercy Hospital with injuries.

This was one of a series of accidents that occurred Friday on heavily congested U.S. 80 where resurfacing 
work is underway. Investigating officers said several trucks had overturned in the area after striking soft 
shoulders on the road.

The accident occurred in the S-curve between Mound and Thomastown about eight miles east of here.

Mr. Hale was a native of North Little Rock. Ark. He had been in Tallulah for the past two years, coming 
here from Vicksburg, Miss.

He was a veteran of the Korean War, and charter member and first president of the Data Processing and Managerial 
Association of Raton Rouge.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ruth Hale; one son, Don Hale Jr.; and two daughters, Misses Debbie Hale 
and Dana Hale, all of Tallulah; his father John B. Hale of Batesville, Ark.; three brothers, Gerald Hale of 
Alameda, Calif., Billy Hale and Ronnie Hale, both of Dallas, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Geraldine Wilkins of 
North Little Rock, Ark.

Pallbearers were Sonny Broadway, Earl Landry, Jack Thames, Maurice Grady, Bobby Grimes, Tommie Cleveland, 
O. N. Williamson and Joe Williamson.

Honorary pallbearers were supervisors of International Paper Company at Vicksburg, Miss.