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Dorothy Jean Farish - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal January 22, 1965

Local Resident Killed Tuesday In Car Wreck

At press time Thursday, funeral arrangements for Mrs. Dorothy Jean Farish, who was killed Tuesday 
morning in a head-on collision on the Vicksburg Bridge were not completed, but services will be held 
in the chapel of Crothers Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby Brown officiating. Burial will follow 
in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Crothers Funeral Home.

According to the reports on the accident, Mrs. Farish was riding with John T. Kitchings of Epps, and 
he has been charged with driving while intoxicated and negligent homicide in connection with the 
traffic accident.

Kitchings was identified as the driver of the auto in which Mrs. Farish was riding. Reports said 
Kitchings' car swerved across the center line on the Mississippi River Bridge and collided head-on 
with a, truck-trailer driven by Edgar Denson, Jr., Negro, of Dallas, Texas. Denison was uninjured.

Kitchings was hospitalized in a Vicksburg hospital with head and internal injuries, a broken right 
arm and deep lacerations of the face.

Mrs. Farish was 31 years old and the mother of six children.

Survivors include a son, Woodrow Farish, five daughters, Jimmie, Kathy, Deborah, Beverly Jean and Susan; 
and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Hill, all of Tallulah; a sister, Mrs. Corine Swayze of Frankfort, Germany; 
two brothers, Thomas D. Hill of California and George C. Hill of Hawaii.