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- Death Notice:
Orleans Woman Killed In Three-Car Collision
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Loretta Dubois, 20-year-old New Orleans woman, was killed in a three-car collision Thursday on the West Bank Expressway here.
Hospital authorities reported Miss Dubois, a Kaplan, La., native, died of brain damage and multiple fractures. There were no other injuries.
(Published in The Lafayette Daily Advertiser on January 11, 1963)
- Obituary:
GRETNA WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH
3-CAR Collision on West Bank Expressway
A 20-year-old woman was fatally injured in a three-car collision Thursday about 3 p.m. on the West Bank Expressway at Lafayette st.
She was identified by the Orleans parish coroner's office as Miss Loretta Dubois, 20, of No. 6 Nel ct., Gretna.
Miss Dubois died in Charity Hospital about 4:30 p.m. The hospital reported that she had suffered brain damage and multiple fractures of the hip.
Relatives said she was alone in her car at the time of the accident.
A spokesman for the Jefferson parish sheriff's office said he did not know whether other persons were injured in the accident. He said the case was being handled by a Gretna policeman. Efforts to contact the policeman were unavailing.
Miss Dubois was a native of Kaplan, La., and a resident of the New Orleans area for the past 11 years.
She was a graduate of West Jefferson High School and attended the New Orleans Barber and Beauty College. At the time of her death she was employed by Flo's Beauty Shoppe in Gretna.
Miss Dubois is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Previs Dubois and two sisters, Jeanette Ann and Deanna Dubois.
(Published in The New Orleans Times-Picayune on January 11, 1963)
- Obituary:
Loretta Jane Dubois
Loretta Jane Dubois, 20, died at 4:30 p.m. yesterday in a New Orleans hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident at 1 p.m. yesterday.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Kaplan.
Interment will be in the Kaplan Cemetery.
Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pervis Dubois, Gretna; two sisters, Jeanette Ann Dubois and Deanna Dubois, both of Gretna; her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Bourque, Kaplan; and her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Enus Dubois, Kaplan.
The Meaux Funeral Home, Kaplan, is in charge of arrangements.
Three cars were involved in the accident.
(Published in The Lafayette Daily Advertiser on January 11, 1963)
- Obituary:
Loretta Dubois Is Killed In Accident
Miss Loretta Jane Dubois, native of Kaplan and member of a widely known family here, but a resident of the New Orleans area for the past 11 years, died in a New Orleans hospital at 4:30 p.m. Thursday from injuries received in a three-car collision on the West Bank Expressway at Lafayette street, the accident occurring about two hours prior to her death.
Miss Dubois, 20 years of age, was a beautician in her mother's ship in Gretna, and was returning from a hospital where she had gone to assist a friend. According to accounts, she had stopped at the traffic light on the four-lane highway, and another car along side her pulled out as she did when the light changed. Driver of the third car, approaching on Lafayette street, apparently tried to cross as the light was changing and hit Miss Dubois' car broadside. She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and passed away on a few hours later.
The remains were returned to Kaplan and held in state at the Meaux Funeral Home until 11 o'clock Saturday morning, when funeral services were held from the Holy Rosary Catholic Church with Rev. Fr. Maurice Dussault officiating. Interment followed in the Kaplan Mausoleum in the local Catholic Cemetery, Meaux's Funeral Home directing the arrangements.
On Friday night the Rosary was recited several times at the Funeral Home, one Rosary being led by Father Dussault, while a second included a group of her cousins and young friends of this community, all about her age.
Pallbearers for the final rites included Miss Dubois' uncles, J. C. Bourque, of Kenner, Loston Bourque, Ivan Bourque and Ellis Bourque, all of Kaplan, Ludness Henry of Berwick, Dalton Suire of Abbeville, Ernest Sonnier of Lake Charles and Ophie Mire of Creole.
Born in Kaplan, Miss Dubois moved to the New Orleans area with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Previs Dubois about eleven years ago, and the family was presently making their home in Gretna. She graduated from the West Jefferson High School and later attended a New Orleans Beauty College. After completing her studies, she entered Flo's Beauty Shop with her mother, where she had since been employed.
In addition to the bereaved parents, she is survived by two sisters, Jeanette Ann and Deanna Dubois, both of Gretna, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Enus Dubois and Mr. and Mrs. U. Bourque, all of Kaplan. In addition, a number of aunts and uncles, many of whom are from the Kaplan area, survive her, as well as other relatives in this section.
Her untimely death came as a great shock to family and friends alike, and the Funeral Home and Holy Rosary Catholic Church were visited by throngs of relatives and close friends throughout the time the body lay in state here, and during the last services.
(Published in The Kaplan Journal on January 17, 1963)
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