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Rites Are Held For Victim Of Accident
Funeral services for William L.
“Bill” Masters, 39, of Jonesboro, were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the
Southern Funeral Home Chapel of Jonesboro with the Rev. Richard Shreve
officiating.
Burial was in McDonald Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Masters
was dead on arrival at Jackson Parish Hospital about 11 p.m. Sunday after being
injured around 9:30 p.m. while working with Rix Drilling Company of Shreveport.
The accident occurred about 15 miles west of Hodge in Bienville Parish. A piece
of machinery struck Mr. Masters on the chest according to the Bienville Parish
Sheriff’s Department.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Evelyn Masters
of Jonesboro; one son, William Lonnie Masters, of North Little Rock, Ark.; two
daughters, Mrs. Norma Jean Populif and Miss Donna Pearl Masters, both of North
Little Rock, Ark.; his father, Larkin Masters of Jonesboro; two sisters, Mrs.
Elon Dark and Mrs. Lucille Reed, both of Jonesboro; three half-brothers, Perriel
Bryant of Baytown, Ala., Harvey Masters of Quitman and David Masters of
Jonesboro; one half-sister, Mrs. Julia Jordan of Jonesboro; one stepson, Jimmy
Ray May of West Monroe; three step-daughters, Mrs. Joan Corley and Miss Nellie
Ann Madison, both of Dodson, and Mrs. Jeraldine Causey of North Hodge; and three
grandchildren.
Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com
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