Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Sep. 18, 1939, Monday, p. 3:
Funeral Held For Simmons – Shreveport Man Fatally Injured Near I. C. Tracks
Funeral services for Byron Simmons, 40, of 2746 Stonewall Street, who was found fatally injured near the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Sibley, La., late Friday night, were held in the chapel of the Osborn Funeral Home at 4:50 p.m. Sunday.
Rev. C. W. Culp, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Sheriff O. H. Haynes of Webster Parish said Sunday that details of Simmons' injury had not been learned. The man was found at 10 p.m. Friday lying beside the tracks a mile east of Sibley. Both legs were mangled and were later amputated at the Minden sanitarium, where he died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
There were no eyewitnesses to the injury, Sheriff Haynes said. The man had been lying beside the tracks for several hours when he was found.
Surviving Simmons, a former Kansas City Southern railroad brakeman, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Simmons; a brother, Morris Simmons; a sister, Mrs. J. F. Pate; a son, Byron Simmons, Jr., and a daughter, Virginia Simmons. All are of Shreveport.
Funeral Held For Simmons – Shreveport Man Fatally Injured Near I. C. Tracks
Funeral services for Byron Simmons, 40, of 2746 Stonewall Street, who was found fatally injured near the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Sibley, La., late Friday night, were held in the chapel of the Osborn Funeral Home at 4:50 p.m. Sunday.
Rev. C. W. Culp, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Sheriff O. H. Haynes of Webster Parish said Sunday that details of Simmons' injury had not been learned. The man was found at 10 p.m. Friday lying beside the tracks a mile east of Sibley. Both legs were mangled and were later amputated at the Minden sanitarium, where he died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
There were no eyewitnesses to the injury, Sheriff Haynes said. The man had been lying beside the tracks for several hours when he was found.
Surviving Simmons, a former Kansas City Southern railroad brakeman, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Simmons; a brother, Morris Simmons; a sister, Mrs. J. F. Pate; a son, Byron Simmons, Jr., and a daughter, Virginia Simmons. All are of Shreveport.
Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Sep. 18, 1939, Monday, p. 3:
Funeral Held For Simmons – Shreveport Man Fatally Injured Near I. C. Tracks
Funeral services for Byron Simmons, 40, of 2746 Stonewall Street, who was found fatally injured near the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Sibley, La., late Friday night, were held in the chapel of the Osborn Funeral Home at 4:50 p.m. Sunday.
Rev. C. W. Culp, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Sheriff O. H. Haynes of Webster Parish said Sunday that details of Simmons' injury had not been learned. The man was found at 10 p.m. Friday lying beside the tracks a mile east of Sibley. Both legs were mangled and were later amputated at the Minden sanitarium, where he died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
There were no eyewitnesses to the injury, Sheriff Haynes said. The man had been lying beside the tracks for several hours when he was found.
Surviving Simmons, a former Kansas City Southern railroad brakeman, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Simmons; a brother, Morris Simmons; a sister, Mrs. J. F. Pate; a son, Byron Simmons, Jr., and a daughter, Virginia Simmons. All are of Shreveport.
Funeral Held For Simmons – Shreveport Man Fatally Injured Near I. C. Tracks
Funeral services for Byron Simmons, 40, of 2746 Stonewall Street, who was found fatally injured near the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Sibley, La., late Friday night, were held in the chapel of the Osborn Funeral Home at 4:50 p.m. Sunday.
Rev. C. W. Culp, pastor of the Queensborough Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Sheriff O. H. Haynes of Webster Parish said Sunday that details of Simmons' injury had not been learned. The man was found at 10 p.m. Friday lying beside the tracks a mile east of Sibley. Both legs were mangled and were later amputated at the Minden sanitarium, where he died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
There were no eyewitnesses to the injury, Sheriff Haynes said. The man had been lying beside the tracks for several hours when he was found.
Surviving Simmons, a former Kansas City Southern railroad brakeman, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Simmons; a brother, Morris Simmons; a sister, Mrs. J. F. Pate; a son, Byron Simmons, Jr., and a daughter, Virginia Simmons. All are of Shreveport.
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