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Crash Victims' Rites Are Set
By JOE BROUGHTON
Of The News Staff
Joint funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Catherine's Catholic church for three area teenage boys who were killed Sunday afternoon in a three-car smashup on Highway 69 opposite the H. S. Anderson Trucking company.
Four other persons are hospitalized with injuries.
Dead are Gary Wayne Bordonaro, 14, son of Mrs. Anna Mae Bordonaro of 3029 34th street, and Frank A. Bordonaro of Houston; Sam Anthony Collida, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Collida of 3735 Rachel avenue, and Dean Matthew Meaux, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Meaux of 3801 Graves avenue, Groves.
Hurled To Pavement
All three were hurled to the pavement from a sports coupe which skidded out of control on rainslicked pavement Sunday at 4 p.m.
Mrs. Bordonaro, the driver, was most seriously injured of the survivors. Park Place hospital attendants today said her condition was "guarded" and she remained in the intensive care unit at the hospital. Her injuries included multiple fractures and lacerations.
Her other son, Kevin Bordonaro, 7, was reported in "fair" condition at Park Place with an arm fracture and lacerations, and the sixth occupant of the car, Richard McCarthy, 13, of 3048 Bryan, Groves, was still in intensive care but the hospital said his condition was improved.
Robert Earl Stanley, 22, of 112 Woodcrest, Port Neches, was in Mid-Jefferson County hospital with a broken collar bone. He was driving one of the other cars.
Rosary Is Tonight
Rosary for all three victims will be recited tonight at 7 o'clock in the Grammier-Oberle 39th street chapel. The will be buried in Greenlawn Memorial park.
Justice of the Peace James B. Creed said young Collida was dead on arrival at St. Mary's hospital with a skull fracture and broken neck.
The other two victims were dead on arrival at Park Place. Justice of the Peace Fulton Lee said young Bordonaro had a fractured skull and compound fracture of the left upper arm, and young Meaux suffered a fractured neck. Both also had lacerations and abrasions.
Returning From Game
Mrs. Bordonaro and the five youngsters were returning from a basketball game in which some of the older boys participated in Beaumont.
Investigating officers said the Bordonaro car had pulled into the outside lane to pass another southbound auto driven by Robert john Dies of 112 15th street.
Dies told police that the yellow coupe skidded out of control as the driver started to cut back to the inside lane in front of his car. It made a 180-degree spin, and Dies' car hit the front of the coupe. The Bordonaro car slid backward through a gap in the median an was hit broadside by the north bound car driven by Stanley, police were told.
Dies was not injured.
Coupe Total Loss
Patrolman Carl Blanchard said Mrs. Bordonaro's car was a total loss. Police estimated damages at $150 to Dies' car and $600 to the Stanley vehicle.
Young Bordonaro was a student at St. Catherines' school and a member of St. Catherines' Catholic church. He was a Port Arthur native. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are a sister, Cheryl Ann Bordonaro; brother, Kevin Charles Bordonaro; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Roccaforte of Port Arthur and Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Bordonaro of Beaumont; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Acosta of Galveston and Mrs. G. G. Ross of Galveston.
The Collida youth was a ninth grade student at Thomas Edison junior high school, a life - long Port Arthur resident, and a member of St. Catherine's church. His mother and Mrs. Bordonato are sisters. Surviving, besides the parents, are a sister, Carmela Ann Collida, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Roccaforte, all of Port Arthur.
Young Meaux attended St. Catherine's school, was a member of the church, and had lived here all of his life. In addition to his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Dwight and Gary Meaux, both of Groves; a sister, Leslie Meaux of Groves; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Meaux of Kaplan, La., and Mr. and Mrs. Otis Nunez of Port Arthur.
Pallbearers for the Bordonaro rites will be Joseph Nicotre, Anthony J. Roccaforte, Ronnie Nictore, Monroe Pratt, A. J. Roccaforte and Voorhies Roccarforte. Eighth grade students at St. Catherine's school are honorary pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers for the Meaux service are all St. Catherine's students. Active pallbearers were to be named.
(Published in The Port Arthur News on February 3, 1969)
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Crash Victims' Joint Rites Held
Joint funeral rites for Gary Wayne Bordonaro and Sam Anthony Collida, both 14, and Dean Matthew Meaux, 13, victims of a three-car collision Sunday afternoon, were held today at 10 a.m. in St. Catherine's Catholic church.
The Rev. Frank Schanzer, pastor of the church, officiated. Burials were in Greenlawn Memorial park under direction of the Grammier-Oberle 39th Street Funeral home.
The boys were killed in the smashup Sunday at about 4 p.m. on rainslicked pavement on Highway 69 near the H.S. Anderson Trucking company.
They were hurled to the pavement after the sports coupe in which they were riding in skidded out of control, made a 180-degree spin and was hit in the front by another car and then was hit broadside by another car as it slid backward. Driver of the car in which the three victims and three other persons were riding, was Mrs. Anna Mae Bordonaro, mother of Gary Wayne. Mrs. Bordonaro was most seriously injured of the survivors.
Pallbearers for the Meaux youth, not previously listed with those other two youths, were Carl Bihm, Tim Firmin, Robert Hanks, Jesse Morua, Murry York and Randy DeKerlegand.
Survivors not previously listed for the Collida youth are two brothers, Ricky and Nicky Collida, both of Port Arthur.
(Published in the Port Arthur News on February 4, 1969)
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